Chapter 691: Li Yuan's sudden death
In the Land Temple, Chen Kefu received three urgent military information letters in a row - kbook updates
In the early morning of the second day of the first month of April, under the cover of Zhang Zhongjian's fierce attack on Luokou, Chen Kefu led 15,000 Hebei troops on hundreds of small boats, taking advantage of the dark night, to sneak quietly through the Yellow River in Luokou in batches, all the way to the east.
Before dawn, we finally reached the mouth of the Bishui River. Then Chen Kefu led the whole army to abandon the boat and landed, went up the Bishui River, stopped advancing ten miles upstream, and before dawn, brought the soldiers and horses into the Xiguan Land Temple, which was only less than five miles away from the Tiger Pass.
Five miles away, there were only 10,000 defenders left. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it is also a big flaw exposed by Li Mi.
There have been many names for Tiger Prison, but it is said that the name of Tiger Prison is because King Zhou Mu once imprisoned the fierce tigers offered by the princes here, so it was named Tiger Prison. The Tiger Prison Pass is connected to Songyue in the south, and is bordered by the Yellow River in the north, with mountains and mountains staggered, which is a natural danger. There is a lot of husband when the pass, and the trend of ten thousand people is not open, and it is a place where soldiers of all generations must fight.
For Li Mi, this is an important gateway to the east of Luoyang. For Chen Kefu, this is also an important gateway for him to enter the Central Plains from Hebei. Such a Xiongguan, if it is only attacked in a regular mode, then it will have to be piled up with human lives.
And now, Li Mi has become a little irrational because of the plan to ambush Chen Kefu, and even Xiongguan, an important Xiongguan such as the Tiger Prison, has only 10,000 people left in the defenders. If you don't take such a good opportunity, it will be a matter of not taking it, and you will be to blame.
As long as the tiger prison is won, Chen Kefu's forward in Ji County, Hebei Province, there is only a golden embankment pass left in front of him. The most critical tiger prison is a moment, and the Jindi Pass, which is blocked by the front and back, can not be defended. After the Jindi and Tiger Prison are down, Chen Kefu can go directly from Hebei to Jijun, and then directly pass through the two passes of Jindi and Tiger Prison, pointing directly to Luoyang, the core of Li Mi.
Now, the Tiger Prison is five miles away, and Chen Kefu's heart is still difficult to get excited. Most of the soldiers who marched all night were still asleep, preparing for the battle at night. Chen Kefu lived in the land temple in Xiguan and did not feel the slightest sleep.
The battle of the Tiger Prison was a crucial one. After taking the Tiger Prison, Chen Kefu could turn this original encounter and ambush battle into a decisive battle with Li Mi. Although Li Mi has many soldiers, they are scattered everywhere, if he can directly attack his base camp before he gathers all the soldiers and horses, there will be a beheading battle. Then as soon as Li Mi's army was defeated, Wei was also defeated.
In history, Li Mi and Wang Shichong fought the war, because of the failure of the decisive battle, and in the end, he couldn't take care of the other cities of Wei at all, so he went directly to Li Yuan in a panic.
While Chen Kefu was tossing and turning, the liaison officer of the special service department who accompanied the army sent three urgent reports.
The three urgent reports came from Guanzhong, Hedong, and Luokou, which was close at hand.
He is now based in Liaodong, sitting in Hebei, Yongshanshan, Zhanghuaibei, and Tuzhongyuan, seeking Hedong. Elite soldiers and fierce generals, looking at the world, whether it is territory or strength, they are already the first in the world.
However, when Chen Kefu was soaring in the northeast corner, the others did not stand still. Guanzhong sent an urgent report, the originally peaceful Guanzhong and Hexi areas, now finally broke the final balance of power, and now there are beacons everywhere, mingle, and scuffles.
At the time when Yu Wenhua completely mastered the power of Guanzhong, Guo Zihe, Zhang Changxun, and Liang Shidu in Longshang were developing to Hedong at the same time, and they had also been actively developing towards the Guanzhong Plain. The Yuwen family and these three powerful people stopped and stopped, and it could be regarded as maintaining a balance on the surface, and there was no big war.
However, a year ago, the melee of the powerhouses in Longxi finally decided the winner. After Wuwei Li Liang raised his army, he established himself as the king of Daliang in Hexi, and attacked the city and plundered the land everywhere. And Xue Ju, who raised troops in Jincheng, also called the king at the same time, known as the overlord of Western Qin. After Xue Ju defeated Tang Bi, the largest group of forces around him, the soldiers and horses claimed to be 300,000 and attacked Li Rail, as a result, Li Rail sent troops to block Yu Changsong, annihilated Xue Ju's soldiers, and pursued by victory, and successively conquered Zhangye, Dunhuang, Xiping, Caohan and other places, and the five counties of Hexi were all returned to the Daliang regime. Li Liang took advantage of the situation to become the emperor, called the emperor of the Great Liang Kingdom, and named his son Boyu as the crown prince. …,
Xue Ju, who was defeated by Li Rail, had to move the capital to Qinzhou, and imitated Li Rail, and also ascended to the throne as the emperor, known as the Emperor of Qin. Xue Ju, who was attacked by Li Rail in the west, turned around and attacked to the east in order to avoid Li Rail's edge. Soon hit the Fufeng area, only three hundred and ten miles away from Chang'an City, and it can be reached in one day. Xue Ju subdued the nearby forces, and the number of soldiers and horses reached 300,000 again.
Yu Wenhua, who occupied Chang'an in Guanzhong, directly faced Xue Ju's army of 300,000. However, Yu Wenhua and the main force at this time were still led by his adopted son Yuwen Chengdu, and confronted Yang Jun's army in the area of Bosaka City in Hedong, and the two sides fought for half a year, winning and losing each other. Yang Jun couldn't take Pu Han, and Yuwen Chengdu couldn't defeat Yang Jun and take the counties of the east and west of Hexi.
On the ninth day of the first month of March, he directly abolished the puppet emperor Yang Yu, changed the country name to Xu, and established himself as the son of Xu Guo, the eldest son Yuwen Chengji was the crown prince, the second son Yuwen Chengtoe was the king of Qin, and the adopted son Yuwen Chengdu was the king of Jin, and the children of the Yuwen family were wantonly added, and the noble forces of Guanlong were added. In one day, thirty-eight kings were crowned.
However, at the critical moment when Xue Ju was about to invade Chang'an, because he was dissatisfied with Xue Ju's father and son's practice of surrendering first, and then killing the leaders of various forces, and forcibly destroying their soldiers and horses, Tang Bi's remnants of the army collectively surrendered to Liu Shirang, the marching commander who guarded Fufeng, so they cobbled together an army of 20,000 people to confront Xue Rengao, the son of Xue Ju. And after Li Liang of Hexi swept away Hexi at this time, he also sent an envoy to Chang'an, asking to attack Xue Ju with Yu Wenhua.
According to his ministers, Li Liang offered a strategy of distant friendship and close attack, and the seal book called Yu Wenhua and his younger brother, indicating that Liang and the two countries were brothers, and the two emperors also became brothers. Yu Wenhua, who was already desperate, and got this help, of course, couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately sent someone to marry Li Liang's daughter as the concubine of the crown prince Yuwen Chengqi, and the two countries fought against Xue Ju. And in a hurry, a force of 100,000 people was cobbled together in Chang'an, with Yu Wenhua and his younger brother Yu Wenzhi as marshals, and the newly promoted Zhao Wang Weiwen, who had just recovered from his injuries, was promoted to deputy marshal, and led his troops to meet Xue Ju.
After reading this military information, Chen Kefu's mood was also very complicated.
The successive proclamations of Li Liang, Xue Ju, Yu Wenhua and the three of them have already shown that the Great Sui has truly perished. The struggle for hegemony in the chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty has also entered a new period. All the anti-kings, and even the puppet emperor they used to put on the façade no longer needed, and they all jumped directly to the front desk.
There is no one in the world who lets it out, only one who fights it. Everyone understands this truth, Chen Kefu is expanding his territory, and other forces are also desperately expanding the map. Chen Kefu unified Liaodong and occupied Hebei, and he had already played a king of Hebei.
At present, Li Rail, Xue Ju, Yu Wenhua and the three families are competing for hegemony in Hexi and Guanzhong, with a total number of soldiers and horses of nearly one million, such a strong force, Xue Ju will inevitably become the first one to fall among the three, and then it will be a duel between Li Rail and Yu Wenhua and this pair of sworn brothers who may not have even seen each other. Whoever wins in the end, Hexi and Guanzhong will be united, and the victor will also become the true king of the northwest.
The situation in Guanzhong and Hexi has developed so rapidly that it has even exceeded Chen Kefu's expectations. This made him worried, no matter who became the king of the northwest, their next target would inevitably be Hedong.
The news from Hedong was that Li Mi had previously sent an envoy to Taiyuan and Shangdang Ercheng at his request, bringing Li Yuan and his orders. The defenders of the Li family, who had been ordered by Li Yuan, have now secretly made contact with Wang Rengong in Hedong, but on the surface, they are fighting to the death with Liu Wuzhou, Liang Shidu, Guo Zihe and other powerful forces attacking the city, and they suffer heavy casualties every day. …,
After reading this information, Chen Kefu finally had a rare smile. Finally, it was not in vain to save Li Yuan's father and son from the deep mountains and old forests, and now it is finally the harvest season. Although Li Yuan ran out, he didn't expect that the envoy he sent earlier had completed the task brilliantly, and now the remnants of the Li family in Hedong were desperately fighting with Liu Wuzhou and others, and the Li family's forces, and Liu Wuzhou and other local forces, were rapidly depleted every day. On Chen Kefu's side, Wang Rengong had already received the order, and he was just a spectator on the sidelines. And secretly, since last year, Hebei has been constantly sending small troops to infiltrate all parts of Hedong, and when the time comes, the various forces that are now jumping Huan will know who is the real winner and who is the master of Hedong.
In this game of chess for the world, Hedong has always wanted him to take it early, but although he is strong, he is always driven by this changeable situation. Now he can use these ambitious local heroes to disrupt the chess game in Hedong, and he is already very satisfied.
The third military intelligence came from Luokou, which was only a few dozen miles away to the west. It was written by Zhang Zhongjian, who was sitting in Luokou, which shows the importance of intelligence.
Sure enough, Zhang Zhongjian's letter was very direct, there was no such thing as a courtesy, and the first sentence at the beginning surprised Chen Kefu inexplicably.
"Li Yuan died in Li Mi's military camp on the third day of the fourth month!"
Li Yuan died without any warning, and when he was discussing with Li Mi and others, he suddenly fell to the ground and died. He died quickly, and there was no warning, and even after his death, Li Mi called all the doctors, and he didn't find out how Li Yuan died. There were no signs of poisoning, no major heart and lung attacks, and he died so suddenly.
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