Chapter 172: Wang Shichong 2
Wang Shichong sent troops to challenge Li Mi, and the two sides faced each other at Luokou, and the two armies fought more than 100 times before and after, and there was no difference between victory and defeat. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoEmperor Yang of Sui sent people to the army to appoint Wang Shichong as a general, urging him to defeat Li Mi quickly.
Wang Shichong led his troops across Luoshui to fight Li Mi, suffered a defeat, drowned more than 10,000 people, and led the rest of his troops back to Heyang. Tens of thousands of people froze to death along the way due to the cold weather and heavy snowfall, and when they arrived in Hayang, there were only more than 1,000 people left. Wang Shichong imprisoned himself and pleaded guilty, and Yang Tong, the king of Yue, sent a messenger to release him, summoned him back to Luoyang, and stationed in Hanjiacang City, collecting the escaped soldiers, and more than 10,000 people.
From ancient times to the present, it seems that the king has the magical power to turn danger into a disaster several times, and successfully reversed the fiasco that seemed impossible to reverse.
Li Mi took the opportunity to be in chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, when the world was in turmoil, he was supported by everyone in the Wagang Army, ascended to the first position, and became the leader of the Wagang Army, known as the Duke of Wei. He led the Wagang army to gain some towns in the Sui Dynasty and won the love of the surrounding people.
Wang Shichong can be said to be invincible, the Wagang army formed a great threat to the emperor Yang Guang, and then sent hundreds of thousands of troops to garrison Luoyang and the Wagang army across the river, and this river is now the Luohe River.
And the commander of this army is Wang Shichong, this Wang Shichong, gives people the feeling that he believes in horses and travels to Xinjiang, has simple rules, and does not take a set of rules to heart at all, but Yang Guang likes this person who does not play cards according to the routine, and often favors him.
And Wang Shichong was invincible before he met Li Mi, and this time the commander-in-chief Xue Shixiong was accidentally killed by Dou Jiande of the Hebei rebel army in Qilijing, so he was sent by Yang Guang to become the commander.
Wang Shichong and all the reinforcements gathered in Luoyang, ready to attack at any time and defeat Li Mi's Wagang army. At that time, these reinforcements included Wei Ji, Wang Bian, Meng Shanyi, Dugu Wu and other famous generals of the Sui Dynasty.
On the night of a month of dark wind and high wind, Wang Shichong led the army to cross the Luohe River at night, and then stationed in Heishi, the next day led the elite soldiers, to Li Mi to call the battle, the two armies in Luokou formation, Wang Jun in one go, with the advantage of weapons, full power to attack, and finally achieved the first victory, and defeated the important general of the Wagang Army, Chai Xiaohe, forced him to fall in the Luohe, the Wagang Army suffered heavy losses in this battle, for a time the Luohe River seemed to be full of the corpses of the Wagangzhai soldiers, drowned countless.
Just when the battle failed and morale plummeted, Li Mi made a decisive decision and decisively gave up the main battlefield, and the troops were divided into two routes, one team was stationed in Yuecheng, now Gongyi, Henan, with a part of the infantry to contain Wang Shichong's main force, on the other hand, led the cavalry of the Wagang Army's characteristic army, and quietly crossed the Luohe River without hiding from the sky and the sea, forming a two-sided attack with Yuecheng. At this time, Wang Shichong, who was victorious, was at a majestic moment, how could he tolerate Li Mi's existence, and then took advantage of the victory to pursue.
Wang Shichong was bent on breaking the moon city at this time, coupled with his simple style, how could he think carefully about whether Li Mi had any other countermeasures, so he ordered to break the city, and in the battle of the moon city, the two sides fought more than 100 times, although Li Mi's army was defeated, but it was still stubbornly fighting, so in this battle the two sides were still evenly matched.
Seeing that the next Yuecheng was about to run out of ammunition, Li Mi had to take the initiative to attack to solve the urgent need of Yuecheng, just when Wang Shichong was thinking about the strategy of breaking the city to Yuecheng, Li Mi led the cavalry to attack the west, and Wang Shichong was caught off guard, Li Mi personally led the cavalry to attack Wang Shichong's rear base camp Heishi, Wang Shichong wanted to break through Yuecheng, but forgot to send troops to garrison Heishi, this time Heishi, who was originally not much garrison, was completely defeated under Li Mi's hands, and the defenders of Heicheng hurriedly lit smoke and asked for help. The sound of trumpets and wails intertwined.
After the beacon fire was lit six times, the rear fire was serious, Wang Shichong had no choice but to reluctantly put down the bowl of meat soup in front of him, turned around and rushed back to Heishi, after all, Yuecheng is full of umami meat soup, and it is not comparable to the grain and grass of the whole army, but he never expected that Li Mi came by surprise at this time, led the cavalry to set up at the door of the blackstone base camp, and gave Wang Shichong an ambush at the door of the house, Wang Shichong was bent on rushing back, coupled with the fatigue of rushing, he didn't notice it, and was just blocked by Li Mi, and came to a pocket-like ambush, and finally Wang Shichong had to retreat in embarrassment。
Just recaptured a little bit of meat, in the blink of an eye by Wang Shichong lost the essence, and at this time Wang Shichong seemed to be hit hard, suddenly settled, and during this period, Li Mi also stepped up his army to reorganize, seeing that Li Mi was about to return to the original state, Yue Wang Yang Tong couldn't sit still, if Wang Shichong lost, it would inevitably affect some of his own interests, seeing Wang Shichong's indifferent appearance, he had to go out in person, and sent people to force Wang Shichong to go out of the army three times on the grounds of insufficient food and grass, and then Emperor Yang of Sui promoted Wang Shichong to general。
Wang Shichong was in this state, he could only lead the army to meet the battle, lead the army across the Luo River, and fight against Li Mi at the Shizi River, Li Mi sent Zhai Rang to pretend to be defeated and lure the enemy deeper, Wang Shichong wanted to chase the enemy, followed the bait, and got farther and farther away from his army, and he was about to catch Zhai Rang, but he suddenly killed a Cheng from the rear. Pei Renji came out from behind, isolating Wang Shichong from the Sui army, poor Wang Shichong was only concerned about killing the enemy in the front, cut off contact with the rear, and was turned around by Li Mi, and suffered a big defeat, so he could only silently swallow a bowl of residual soup and cold rice. However, Li Mi won the battle, so that Wagangzhai finally developed to the peak.
Yu Wenhua rebelled in Jiangdu, and Emperor Yang of Sui was killed. The news of Emperor Yang's death reached Luoyang, and Yang Tong, the king of Yue, was proclaimed emperor as the heir to the throne, with the year name Huangtai, and later became known as the Huangtai Lord. Wang Shichong was named Zheng Guogong by the Emperor Tai, and he was jointly assisted by Duan Da, Yuan Wendu and other six people, and was known as Qigui at the time. When the emperor ascended the throne, Luoyang had been heavily surrounded by Li Mi, and the effective ruling range was only one city, Luoyang, and the rebels of Yu Wenhua reached the outskirts of Luoyang, intending to conquer Luoyang as a base.
Yuan Wendu said to Lu Chu and others: "Now Yu Wenhua and the murderer are rebellious, revenge has not been avenged, shame has not snowed, although I am eager for revenge, but I can't do it." Considering the overall situation of the country, it is better to use high-ranking officials to entrap Li Mi, temporarily lure him with the assets of the treasury, and let Li Mi attack Yu Wenhua, so that the two rebels will kill each other, and after Yu Wenhua is defeated, Li Mi's soldiers and horses will inevitably be exhausted. ”
"Besides, Li Mi's soldiers have been rewarded by the imperial court and hold official positions in the imperial court, and the imperial court has established more relationships with them, and it is easy to use divisive tactics, and our army is recuperating to exploit their exhaustion and fatigue, so Li Mi can also deal with it. Lu Chu and the others thought that this should be the case, and on the same day, they sent envoys to confer the official positions of Li Mi Taiwei and Shang Shuling, and ordered him to crusade against Yu Wenhua.
Li Mi then proclaimed himself a vassal to the imperial court, accepted the orders of the imperial court, led troops to Liyang to resist Yu Wenhua, and sent envoys to report to the imperial court whenever he won the battle, and the people were very happy.
Wang Shichong simply said to the generals under him: "Those people in Yuan Wendu are just civil officials, they write and paint, and they are just civil officials, I see the trend of the situation, and I will definitely be arrested by Li Mi." Besides, my troops have fought against Li Mi many times and killed his father, brothers and children, and there are already a lot of them, and once we become his subordinates, we people will have no way to live. ”
He said this to provoke his soldiers, and Yuan Wen was very frightened after knowing it, and discussed with Lu Chu and others, and when Wang Shichong was in the court, he set up an ambush to kill him, and it was already the appointed time. Nayan Duan Da was mediocre and cowardly, and was afraid that this matter would not be successful, so he sent his son-in-law Zhang Zhi to tell Wang Shichong about the plans of Lu Chu and others.
That night, Wang Shichong led his men and horses to surround the palace, and the generals Fei Yao, Tian Yan and others met outside the East Sun Gate, Fei Yao was defeated, Wang Shichong seized the city gate and rushed in, and the general Huangfu Wuyi escaped alone, grabbed Lu Chu and killed.
At this time, the gate of the palace was closed, and Wang Shichong sent someone to knock on the palace door and said to the emperor: "Yuan Wendu, they want to hold Your Majesty hostage and surrender to Li Mi, Duan Da told me after learning about it, I dare not betray the court, I am here to crusade against the people who betrayed the court." ”
At first, Yuan Wendu heard that something had happened, and came to the Ganyang Palace to serve the emperor, commanded the troops to defend, and ordered the soldiers to resist the mutiny with the city. Duan Da falsely claimed that the emperor's order was to capture Yuan Wendu and escort him to Wang Shichong, and as soon as he arrived, he was beaten to death. Duan Da also falsely claimed the order of the emperor and opened the palace gate to welcome Wang Shichong, who sent someone to replace all the guards in the palace, and then met the emperor to apologize.
"Yuan Wendu and others have committed untold crimes, conspired to create civil strife, and the situation is urgent to adopt this method, I dare not betray the country. ”
The emperor swore an oath with him, and on the same day, he was promoted to Wang Shichong as the left servant of Shangshu, and the chief was in charge of supervising all military affairs inside and outside the court. Wang Shichong left Hanjiacheng and moved into the Shangshu Provincial Government Office to live, monopolizing the power of the court.
It didn't take long for Li Mi to defeat Yu Wenhua and his class master to return to the dynasty, and most of his elite soldiers and horses died in battle, and the rest were tired and sleepy. Wang Shichong wanted to take the opportunity to attack him, but he was afraid that people's hearts would not be aligned, so he used the signs of ghosts and gods, saying that he had dreamed of Zhou Gong, so he built the Zhou Gong Temple on the bank of Luoshui, and asked the wizard to preach that Zhou Gong ordered Shangshu Zuo Servant to shoot and quickly crusade against Li Mi, and would make great contributions, otherwise the soldiers would all die of the plague.
Most of Wang Shichong's soldiers were from Chudi, and it was customary to believe in grotesque words that deceived and deceived people's minds, and everyone asked for war. Wang Shichong selected elite and brave men and horses, with more than 20,000 soldiers and more than 2,000 war horses, and camped in the south of Luoshui.
Li Mi was stationed at the head of the north mountain of Yanshi, when Li Mi had just defeated Yu Wenhua, and he had the mood of despising Wang Shichong and did not build fortifications. Wang Shichong secretly sent more than 300 cavalry into Beishan at night, ambushed in the valley, and ordered all the soldiers and horses to be fed, and the people to eat well, and at dawn to force Li Mi.
Li Mi sent troops to fight, the formation was not set up before the fight, Wang Shichong's ambushed cavalry launched a charge, condescendingly, rushed to Li Mi's camp, set fire to his military camp, Li Mi's team fled, his generals Zhang Tongren and Chen Zhiluo surrendered, and took advantage of the victory to pursue and defeat the Yan division, Li Mi fled and retreated to Luokou.
After Li Mi fled, his guards in various places surrendered to Wang Shichong, and Wang Shichong occupied all of Li Mi's original territory, and his sphere of influence suddenly expanded from Luoyang to the whole of Henan. At the same time, Wang Shichong also got Qin Shubao, Cheng Zhijie, Luo Shixin, Pei Renji, Shan Xiongxin and other famous generals under Li Mi, so his subordinates were full of talents.