Chapter 175: The Final Battle of Extinction 1
Two months after Li Mi's death, Yu Wenhua and was eliminated by Dou Jiande, without the threat of Li Mi and Yu Wenhua, Wang Shichong ascended the throne and called the emperor to establish the Zheng Dynasty, and at this time, Liu Wuzhou, who claimed to be the son of Dingyang Tianzi, went south, first took the cities south of Jinyang City one by one, and then surrounded Jinyang City, the reinforcements sent by Li Yuan were constantly defeated, at this time Pei Lin volunteered to take command of the expedition. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Before Liu Wenjing was imprisoned and killed, he was the most qualified commander in the Tang Dynasty. Pei Lian's military talent is not as good as Liu Wenjing, he made the same mistake as Ma Jian during the Three Kingdoms period, he stationed troops in Suoyuan, was cut off by the enemy Song Jingang, and under the thirst of the soldiers, he moved the army to find water, and was annihilated by Song Jingang in one fell swoop, Pei Lian's whole army was annihilated, he rode a horse and galloped, and fled to Jinzhou for a day and a night, north of Jinzhou, except for Xihe County, only a lonely city in Jinyang remained.
Pei Lian's luck was very good, he lost his teacher and humiliated the country Li Yuan didn't have time to settle accounts with him, Li Yuanji's son Li Yuanji abandoned Jinyang as soon as he heard Pei Lian's failure, and fled by himself, and the people of Jinyang opened the city gate to welcome Liu Wuzhou. There were tens of thousands of troops in Jinyang, and they had stored grain for ten years, but it was gone in one day, and Liu Wuzhou immediately moved the capital to Jinyang.
With Li Yuanji's big mistake in front of him, Li Yuan couldn't punish Pei Lian, and he had no choice but to comfort Pei Lian with Wen Yan, hoping that he would bravely defend Hedong. Li Yuan collected as many troops as he could in Guanzhong and handed them over to Li Shimin, and personally went to Huayin to give Li Shimin a farewell, this young man was the last hope of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Shimin's army took advantage of the Yellow River to freeze in Longmen and crossed the ice to the east, stationed in Baibi to confront Song Jingang, and Li Shimin took out a big victory over Xue Renguo, and the deep ditch and high fortress did not engage in the battle. Guanzhong was the most developed area in China at that time, with sufficient grain, and Liu Wuzhou had been attacking Shanxi for a while, Shanxi was already poor, the crop yield was small, and the people generally did not have much grain, and the Song Jingang culture was not high, so they would only plunder and supply military supplies, and Li Shimin's army not only had an endless stream of logistical supplies, but also Li Shimin knew how to gently collect from the people, Li Shimin's army had no shortage of food, and Song Jingang's army lacked food.
However, Li Shimin was not stupid and hiding, Song Jingang sent the general Chi Jingde and Xun Xiang to Xia County to attack Li Xiaoji, the king of Yong'an in the Tang Dynasty, and broke Li Xiaoji, Li Shimin called Yin Kaishan and Qin Shubao to block the return journey of the Dingyang army. Later, when Wei Chi Jingde and Xun Xiang went to support Wang Xingben, who was holding on to Puban, Li Shimin personally led 3,000 cavalry to intercept him.
In short, Li Shimin refused to fight a decisive battle with Song Jingang, but constantly sent small troops to fight guerrilla attacks and disrupt the supply lines of the Dingyang army. Finally, Song Jingang's food ran out and he had to retreat, waiting for up to four months, if Li Shimin was not the prince Li Yuan, could he trust him so much?
Li Shimin sometimes asked the Red Whisk Girl if she wanted to lead an army to establish a meritorious career and become famous, and the Red Whisk Girl replied that she just wanted to charge into battle with Li Shimin and protect Li Shimin's safety at the same time.
Li Shimin also asked curiously: "General Hua looks at Montenegro, where is Montenegro?"
The Red Whisker Girl would sing that song: "Under the Black Mountain, by the Yellow River, there are herds of cattle and sheep, there is green grass, there is my hometown, in my dream there is the sound of the gurgling water of the Yellow River, there is the snow of the Black Mountain, there is my hometown." ”
The Red Whisk Girl shows that she is a descendant of Rouran, and that one day, if she has the opportunity, she hopes to be able to get back the blood feud of the Turks who destroyed the country and destroyed the people.
Li Shimin's whole army followed the retreating Song Jingang army, and caught up with the Dingyang general after the palace in Luzhou, and the Xiangxiang was ordered to hold the mouth of the Huo Valley to cover the retreating army, Li Shimin called the main force to attack from the front, and he led the elite cavalry to return to the rear of the Xiangxiang army, and rushed out suddenly, and defeated the Xiangxiang army at once, and the Xiangxiang army rushed to the rear, Li Shimin's army chased wildly, fighting and advancing at the same time, ran 200 miles in one day and one night, and actually went out of the Huoshan area and arrived at Gaobiling.
Liu Hongji, the head of the march, grabbed Li Shimin's horse and said that the soldiers had not eaten or slept for two days, were hungry and tired, and could not fight anymore, Li Shimin replied that the enemy had not eaten either, and was just as tired, so he whipped his horse and continued to advance, and finally chased Song Jingang in the Bird Mouse Valley on the bank of the Fen River.
This method of warfare is far beyond the scope that Song Jingang can understand, the two armies are entangled in a melee, Li Shimin's army has an absolute advantage in numbers, and it is from far away, and it will not escape, many of Song Jingang's army are local soldiers in Shanxi, and when they see such a danger, of course they pull their legs and sneak home, Song Jingang can't stand it and can only retreat in a hurry.
That night, Li Shimin's army camped in the plain at the western end of the Bird Mouse Valley, and the next day Li Shimin's army advanced to Jiexiu, and Song Jingang only had 20,000 horses left. Li Shimin relied on the two legs of the soldiers to chase and fight fiercely, and within three days Song Jingang's hundreds of thousands of troops disintegrated, if Li Shimin was not the emperor, he and the famous generals of the past and present were evaluated together, and they were among the best.
Song Jingang knew that if he was surrounded by Li Shimin in Jiexiu City, because there was no food, there was only a dead end, and the soldiers were too tired last night to rush overnight, so he thought that after a night's rest, Li Shimin's army would not come immediately, as long as he left early in the morning, he didn't expect that as soon as the morning dawned, Li Shimin's army was already outside Jiexiu City. Song Jingang could only order the whole army to go out of the city and line up with their backs to the city wall, hoping to defeat Li Shimin's army. When Li Shimin saw Song Jingang's formation, he called Xu Shiji to explain like this, passed the order, and prepared to fight.
In the sound of war drums, Xu Shiji led the infantry phalanx to slowly advance to the Song King Kong army, the two armies collided together, the fierce battle unfolded, the Song King Kong army bravely faced the battle, Xu Shiji's infantry slowly retreated step by step, as if it could not stop the attack of the Song King Kong army, the Song King Kong army thought that it was about to win and stepped up its speed to advance, and unconsciously left the Jiexiu city wall six hundred steps away.
Li Shimin took his cavalry and rushed into the flank of Song Jingang's army from the gap, Song Jingang's army collapsed again, Song Jingang did not dare to fight a decisive battle, abandoned the infantry, and led the cavalry to escape, Li Shimin chased all the way for more than ten miles, beat Song Jingang to only a hundred men and horses, and went directly to the Turks, not daring to run in the direction of Jinyang.
Wei Chi Jingde led the remnants of the Dingyang army of 8,000 people to retreat into Jiexiu City to hold on, and was later persuaded by Li Shimin to surrender, so that Song Jingang's troops were all over, because there was no army to return to Jinyang, Liu Wuzhou was frightened, and even the Mayi base did not dare to go, and fled to the Turks to accept protection like Song Jingang.
Insisting on not fighting for four months, it took only ten days to fight at the beginning, and the entire Dingyang Kingdom of Liu Wuzhou was wiped out, and the 22-year-old Li Shimin created another military miracle. Li Shimin's familiarity with the art of war is absolute, but it is not possible to have enough courage and incomparably abundant physical strength, and after three days of sleepless fighting, the Tang army after the complete victory still has to take turns to sleep, but fortunately, the victory is too beautiful, and everyone has beautiful dreams.
Li Yuan, who was in Chang'an, was overjoyed when he heard that Li Shimin had won Ding, and Yang Jun feasted on the civil and military officials, and opened the royal warehouse so that each of the civil and military officials could take as much silk as they could at one time. Li Shimin returned to Chang'an and immediately began to prepare for the crusade against Wang Shichong, Li Shimin once again led the army to set off, and Li Shimin arrived in Xin'an to convene a military meeting of the marching commander of the battle for Luoyang.
Draw up a combat strategy, Shi Wanbao captured the Longmen in the south of Luoyang City to block the way out of Luoyang to the south, Liu Dewei crossed the Taihang Mountain and went around to the east to surround Hanoi to defend the east, Wang Junkuo went to take Luokou Cang to cut off Luoyang's food supply, Huang Junhan's task was to capture Huiluocheng, and the Beibi Mountain next to Luoyang would be Li Shimin's marshal tent. The above generals are all veteran cadres of the Tang Dynasty army in the Taiyuan period, as for Qin Qiong, Cheng Zhijie, Xu Shiji, Wei Chi Jingde, Luo Shixin and other fierce generals who surrendered, Li Shimin took them with him as front-line commanders.
Just looking at the battle sequence and layout, Li Shimin didn't know how many times he had won over Li Mi. Luo Shixin led the forward to surround Cijian in the west of Luoyang, Wang Shichong personally led 30,000 reinforcements, Li Shimin, who only took a small number of cavalry to investigate, suddenly encountered Wang Shichong's army, Li Shimin and the brothers of the pro-military camp opened bows left and right to shoot back the incoming soldiers, and the red whisk girl and Yan Qi, the leading general of Wang Shichong's army, fought, and captured him alive in three or two strokes.
The next day, Li Shimin led an army of 50,000 to attack Cijian, Wang Shichong did not dare to fight, retreated back to Luoyang, and Li Shimin went straight to Beibi Mountain to establish a large camp. Huang Junhan conquered and returned to Luocheng, Shi Wanbao marched to Xianren Palace, Wang Junkuo troops went to Guancheng, Li Shimin and Wang Shichong confronted Wang Shichong across Luoshui without fighting before the army completed the encirclement and entered a situation conducive to the decisive battle, this is Li Shimin's consistent insistence, he will not continue to call soldiers to fight and die like Li Mi.
Li Shimin led the 500 cavalry of the pro-army battalion and some front-line commanders to inspect the battlefield, when Li Shimin and his party boarded the tomb of Yuan Ke, 10,000 infantry cavalry of Wang Shichong's army suddenly appeared, the tomb of Yuan Ke is in the north of the mountain, it can be said that it is not far from the edge of Li Shimin's camp, it is obviously a deliberate ambush by the enemy, Li Shimin has the habit of carrying a small number of soldiers to investigate, giving people a chance to capture the king.
The coming general is the famous general Shan Xiongxin, Li Shimin fought bravely as usual, but Shan Xiongxin's martial arts are too much higher than Li Shimin, and in a few rounds Li Shimin was knocked down by Shan Xiongxin and fell off the horse, Shan Xiongxin raised Ma Jian and stabbed Li Shimin to death with a shot, Xu Shiji, who was a few feet away, shouted urgently: "Don't kill him, he is the king of Qin!"
Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji are sworn brothers, they are very familiar with Xu Shiji's voice, and suddenly slammed for a moment, at this moment, Wei Chi Jingde, who was dozens of feet away, did not think about picking up the spear in his hand, when the javelin shot hard at Shan Xiongxin, impartially in the middle of Shan Xiongxin, Shan Xiongxin turned over and fell off the horse, and the generals took advantage of the panic of the enemy savior to quickly protect Li Shimin to break through.
Li Shimin, who returned to the camp, poured three bowls of wine in a row to suppress the shock, came back to his senses, and was worthy of being a wise leader, and immediately ordered the generals to gather. Li Shimin told everyone that killing him at this time would definitely surprise the enemy army and win a big victory.
Li Shimin originally thought that everyone would respond excitedly, but he didn't expect Dou Liang and Qu Tutong to take the lead, and the generals knelt on the ground: "Lord, no, the hope of the whole country is on the lord alone, and the lord can't personally take risks anymore." ”
At this time, the red-whisked girl on the side also knelt down: "Enlighten the lord, the lord, your armor can be worn in a humble position, and you dare to ask to kill this horse gun instead of the lord." ”
The spies came to report the war in Beibi Mountain, Wang Shichong thought that Shan Xiongxin had succeeded, and immediately led the prepared 30,000 horses to set off to respond, but he did not see Li Shimin's head but saw Shan Xiongxin lying on a stretcher, Shan Xiongxin was pierced through the body by Wei Chi Jingde's spear, fortunately it did not hurt the vital point, but it was inevitable to recuperate for ten days and half a month.
Shan Xiongxin informed Wang Shichong of the experience, Wang Shichong was so sorry that he jumped to his feet, just when Wang Shichong led the army to slowly return to Luoyang, the Tang army all over the mountains and fields came, and it was Li Shimin in the golden armor who took the lead, of course, the armor was filled with the body of the red whisk girl, and the red whisk girl pulled down the iron face guard, and no enemy would know that she was not Li Shimin.
In the past, the Red Whisk Girl was tasked with protecting Li Shimin, so she didn't need to kill the enemy on a large scale, but now she can fully display all her martial arts and go on a killing spree. The generals of the Tang army did not know how high the fighting skills of the Red Whisk Girl were, and they were afraid that she would make a mistake in the battle and affect the morale of the whole army, so they ordered Wei Chi Jingde to follow the Red Whisk Girl closely.
At this time, the two highest-ranking martial arts generals of the contemporary era attacked together, as if they were the reincarnation of Lu Bu. Some of the generals of Wang Shichong's army, because Shan Xiongxin almost killed Li Shimin just now, thought that Li Shimin was so good that they rushed to attack the red whisk girl, which doomed them to be unlucky, and they lay down more than ten at once.
The Red Whisk Girl and Wei Chi Jingde led the elite cavalry of the pro-military camp to run through the Wang Shichong army array, disrupting the entire array of Wang Shichong's army, at this time, Qu Tutong led the main force of the Tang Army into the battlefield, Wang Shichong's army collapsed, Wang Shichong left the battlefield with the cavalry first, the Red Whisk Girl chased closely, the cavalry corpses of Wang Shichong's army were all over the field, Wang Shichong only fled into Luoyang City by himself, Wang Shichong's champion general Chen Zhiluo did not have time to run away, was besieged by the Red Whisk Girl and Wei Chi Jingde, and was captured by the horse, Chen Zhiluo is the most famous general in Yang Guang's Xiaoguo warriors。
The Red Whisk Girl chased to the edge of Luoyang City before turning back, all the way Wang Shichong's army was tied up and led away, and when they arrived at the original main battlefield, there were already 6,000 prisoners gathered there. After this battle, Wang Shichong no longer dared to lead the army out of Luoyang City by himself for a while, and Li Shimin took advantage of this gap to accelerate the encroachment of Wang Shichong's army garrison around Luoyang City.