Chapter 1012: The First World War Determines the Country
In July of the first year of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court Zuo Xiaowei General, Servant Zhong, Inspector Tai Lieutenant, and Yiwu Jie Du made the Chongshen Ce Army Jingdong Xingying Dutong Wang Chucun suddenly attacked, and secretly united with Yang Fuguang's son Yang Shouliang to launch a surprise attack on a rainy night, and the inside and outside should be combined, and they attacked Luoyang City in one fell swoop, captured Yang Fuguang who was seriously ill, and then controlled the entire Luoyang, and quickly controlled the counties of Henan Prefecture.
When the news reached Taiyuan, Li Jing woke up from his dream and could hardly believe it.
He realized that this was a major turning point, and he was completely sleepy, and his whole body became excited. After quickly getting up and washing his face with cold water, Li Jing immediately ordered to convene the civil and military generals in Taiyuan City for urgent discussion.
"Is this true?" Even Li Zhuo, who was old and serious, was stunned, Yang Fuguang was the real behind-the-scenes controller of the Chang'an Imperial Court, and the Yang brothers were in one palm and one in the other. Yang Fugong controlled the court and the emperor in Chang'an, and although Yang Fuguang was outside, he was really in the front of the dispatch, coordinating the armies, although he was a eunuch, but the ability to command the troops and the strategic vision were extremely clever. Now, he was actually captured by his generals and Yoshiko in this way?
Gongsun Lan nodded and said: "This matter is really wrong, it happened last night, just one day after this time, the news sent back by the secret agents in Luoyang City, and it was sent back by the secret agents of several bureaus of the Supervision Department, there will definitely be mistakes." The 50,000 soldiers and horses in Luoyang City have been completely controlled by Wang Chuzhi and Yang Shouliang, most of the soldiers have fallen to the two, and a few who do not obey have been executed or imprisoned. At present, except for the outer passes such as Wujiao Pass, Longmen, and Pishan Jin Yong City, there is no change, and the defenders of Luoyang City and several military camps outside Luoyang City have all been returned to Wang. Brushed his hair. Gongsun Lan continued with a smile: "There is even better news, after Wang Chucun and Yang Shouliang mutinied, they immediately sent their brother Wang Chuzhi to secretly rush to Taiyuan. ”
"The king wants to surrender to my Qin domain?" At this time, even Li Zhen, who was transferred from the position of Shangshu's right servant to the left servant of Menxia Province, was full of surprise and excitement, this news was too amazing. If it is true, then it can be said that the whole situation will change, Luoyang can be said to be the center of the hinterland of the world, if the king is saved and Qin, then they can easily and smoothly take Tokyo without blood.
"The king abandons darkness and turns to light. This is the general knowledge of the times, and Lone appreciates him very much. Li Jing raised two sword eyebrows and said easily. As he said, the situation has reached this point, who will not be able to see the current situation in the world, although even so, it is not really determined by the world, many people will still stubbornly resist to the end in order not to damage their vested interests. But these people refer to Yang Fugong and Tian Lingzi. Li Yi, Li Ye, and even Zhu Wen and Li Quanzhong, but these people do not include Wang Chucun.
Wang Chucun changed the court several times. As a result, he was not really trusted. Otherwise, Tian Lingzi would not have sent him from Chengdu to Chang'an. He stayed in Chang'an, and his identity has always been very embarrassing, with the name of a righteous military envoy, but he is a guest army commander with no territory, and he does not return to the Yang brothers. His guest army can't hold out anymore. can vote for the Yang brothers, but it is impossible to get real attention. In this case, seeing that the Yang brothers couldn't hold on, why did he continue to follow them. For the head of a family like Wang Chucun, the interests of the family come first. Especially for him, who has already changed the court a few times, change it again. There is no psychological barrier at all.
Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the development of the family has reached its peak, although in recent years it has begun to decline due to the impact of feudal towns and peasant uprisings, but their power is still very strong. When Huang Chao rebelled, they did fully support the imperial court to deal with the rebels, but that was not how loyal they were to the imperial court, but that Huang Chao and other mutineous troops were fundamentally opposed and conflicted with their interests, and it was impossible for them to come together.
But Li Jing is different, Li Jing's Qin Domain, although there are also many reforms and changes, not only the status of ordinary peasants has been improved, and even the slave system has been abolished, breaking the monopoly of the gate lords and nobles on the imperial examination, the control of the locality, and greatly improving the status of merchants, many nobles and wealthy families are no longer so high, and even Li Jing has introduced many systems, such as splitting the big family into many small households, such as opening examinations, appointing officials and officials, apportioning into acres, heavy taxes on land sales, etc., but anyway, In today's world of martial arts, under the rule of Li Jing, these reforms and changes are still quite mild, just boiled frogs in warm water, not intense, and the interests of the wealthy families are still maintained on the surface.
The most important thing is that Li Jing won the world, which is already an indisputable fact in front of him.
Wang Chucun is not only a general of the forbidden army, he is also the head of the Jingzhao Wang family, and the Wang family is a top family, not only has a wide range of contacts, but also has hundreds of millions of family assets. Seeing that the Tang Dynasty ship controlled by the Yang brothers had entered the water and was about to sink, he naturally had to prepare early. Li Jing believes that not only Wang Chucun, but now there must be the vast majority, and it can even be said that half of the people in the world have the idea of turning to them. Of the rest, many of them are not resisting.
"Could it be a swindle?" Zhang Chengye, the director of the Inner Servant Province and the envoy of the Qin Domain's Guanjun, had mixed feelings in his heart when he said this, this Li Jing's assistant and supervisor of the army, although he still has the title of the supervisor of the army, but in fact this is just a reward given by Li Jing for his hard work over the years, this Guanjun envoy can't interfere in military affairs at all, and now his responsibilities have long been transferred from the army to the court, and he is Li Jing's royal director. However, in his heart, he still maintains very complicated feelings for Li Tang, seeing the Qin Domain rising day by day, while Li Tang is declining day by day, his heart is very complicated, he is happy for Li Jing and the strength of the Qin Domain, but he is also sad for the deterioration of the imperial court. However, at this time, he still reminded Li Jing out of his own right, afraid that he would be too happy and fall for the grass on the wall of the king's place.
Li Jing shook his head: "There will be no fake in this matter, but Wang Chucun and they are still too anxious." If they could have kept in touch with them first, and waited a little longer, when we had conquered the river, the situation would have been much better. Now, Wang Chucun's hurried mutiny has made such a big noise, but our soldiers and horses are still too far away from Luoyang. Whether it is the soldiers and horses in the east of the river or the soldiers and horses of Hebei and Henan in the east, there are still several feudal towns separated by them. ”
Wang Chucun's thoughts are actually clear to everyone, and he is in a hurry, firstly, he is shocked by the rapid and fierce offensive of the Qin army before, for fear that the Qin army will hit Luoyang if he is late. Second, he also wants to make some meritorious performances so that he can be used as a capital for surrender. If you had contacted Li Jing earlier, and waited until the Qin army arrived in Luoyang to do internal response, this credit would have been there, but how could it be compared with now. Now he has taken Luoyang alone as a capital for surrender.
However, Wang Chucun's approach also brought him great danger.
Luoyang is very important to Chang'an, and Yang Fuguang was still captured by Wang Chucun?
In any case, the Luoyang Mutiny will inevitably shake the whole world. At this time, even those imperial court towns that were originally a little reluctant to listen to the transfer, both public and private, would unite again to deal with the Qin army in order to protect themselves. And first of all, they will send troops to Luoyang and destroy this two-five anti-bone boy first.
Wang Chucun estimated the situation too optimistically, he thought that under the threat of the unstoppable offensive of the Qin Domain, he and Yang Shouliang would inevitably get support from all the people when they stood up and raised their arms, but who would have thought that although Yang Fuguang was a eunuch, he had good means, even if the various feudal towns sold his face, not to mention the guards around Luoyang, who directly belonged to him? Yang Fuguang's prestige in the army is extremely high, which is unexpected by the king, although he is actually one of Yang Fuguang's eight townsmen.
He captured Yang Fuguang alive and captured Luoyang, but none of the guards of the Zhuguancheng army on the periphery of Luoyang, such as Wujiao, Longmen, Kim Yong, Luokou, Huiluocheng, and Qianjinbao, did not obey him. In the surrounding area of Henan Mansion, there is Zhu Wen of the Xuanwu Army whose relationship with the Luoyang Army has deteriorated extremely much in the east, and north of the Yellow River in the north there are the three towns of Heyang, Zhaoyi, and Hezhong, which are still under the Chang'an Imperial Court, and in the south, there are Jin Shang and Shaanxi Yu, which were originally Zhu Wen's subordinates and are now just beaten down by Yang Fuguang's brothers.
Looking at it, although Wang Chucun's operation was tactically successful, he put himself in danger of being encircled layer by layer.
Guarding Luoyang City, there are 50,000 horses in the king's place. But everyone knows what is going on with these 50,000 horses, his real henchmen and horses are only 10,000, and there are still 10,000 elites left, in fact, they are just auxiliary troops with a large number of people. The reason why Wang Chucun was in such a hurry to send his brother Wang Chuzhi to Taiyuan was largely related to the fact that he found that his situation was not good.
Yang Fugong will know about the Luoyang Mutiny immediately, and he will never sit idly by and ignore this matter. Yu private, Yang Fuguang is his brother, Yu Gong, Luoyang is extremely important to Chang'an, Luoyang is lost, the Central Plains controlled by the imperial court will be lost, and at that time, they can only guard the small area in Guanzhong. Therefore, no matter what, Yang Fugong will send troops to Luoyang, and Guanzhong and Hedong and other towns will not sit idly by, this will be a big war. Wang Chucun lit the fuse of this battle! Li Jing pointed out the current situation and the future development trend.
It was definitely a good thing that Wang Chucun mutiny in Luoyang, but it also broke the layout of the Qin army again, and they were still far away from Luoyang.
"King Qin, I think this is a good thing, it just so happens that we and the towns will hunt in Luoyang and fight the country!" Li Zhen's eyes flashed with excitement and said loudly.
"The First World War will determine the country!" Li Jing muttered, a pair of starry eyes became brighter and brighter, Li Zhen was right, if this eventually evolved into a Central Plains decision, then this battle does determine who belongs to the country, this is a battle that determines the world, and a war determines the country!