Chapter 259: Take the Periphery First
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The second is the Xuanjia Army who rushed into battle to kill the enemy, and unexpectedly Wei Chigong was wounded by an arrow in the shoulder, but fortunately, it was not a critical position, and he could recover in a few days of recuperation.
"Thank you, General Wei Chi, for the rescue!" Qu Tutong solemnly bowed to Wei Chigong.
It turned out that in the process of fighting, the opponent recklessly used a large number of arrows, and also focused on the goal of Qu Tutong. Seeing several arrows flying towards Qu Tutong, Wei Chigong did not hesitate to wave his spear into a shield to resist him, but in the end, he was hit in the shoulder, and Qu Tutong was able to save his life.
"Hmph, looking for King Qin behind my back, saying that my Wei Chi Gong has a rebellious heart, which makes people so unhappy!" Yu Chigong snorted coldly.
"It's not just behind the scenes, I can also say bluntly in front of everyone, if you really have this heart, you and I are the enemy of the sky!" Although Qu Tutong didn't raise his body, he still said stubbornly, everyone laughed for a while, Cheng Biting Jin smiled the most happily, grinning at the back of his head, this time Wei Chi Gong was embarrassed.
Wei Chigong also felt very helpless, how could he repay his benefactor so much, and make intimidation! However, for the sake of his loyalty, Wei Chigong still politely helped him up, and said: "You can see people's hearts for a long time, one day, your brother Qu will admit his mistake to my Wei Chigong!" ”
"I'm looking forward to that day!" Qu Tutong laughed, patted Wei Chigong on the shoulder, and became a good comrade-in-arms from then on.
When the good news came back to Chang'an, the government and the opposition celebrated, and everyone felt that this was expected. Li Yuan was even more happy, as if he had seen the great cause of the Tang Dynasty.
"Big brother, the second brother does have some skills in fighting, and he must not be allowed to get the climate!" Li Yuanji found Li Jiancheng and whispered privately.
"Well, it's far from here. What can I do about it? Li Jiancheng poured a glass of wine in annoyance, if it goes on like this, the crown prince's position will probably not be kept.
"It's still the same old saying, strike first!"
Li Yuanji's eyes were full of fierce light, but Li Jiancheng waved his hand and said helplessly: "Last time, my father was seriously ill, and I still have a chance to take advantage of it." Wise to the father. When he is healthy, it is easy to be exposed, and you and I can't even save our lives. ”
Li Yuanji said: "It's not my father." Now that I think about it carefully, our biggest enemy is still Li Shimin. Even if the eldest brother ascends the throne in the future, he has military power, is it still the same situation as now? Rather than being held back. It's better to cut the grass and eradicate the roots as soon as possible! ”
"Get rid of Li Shimin?" Li Jiancheng looked stunned, "He is heavily guarded. He is far away from the gate, how can he plot to assassinate him? ”
"If it weren't for our hands, someone would naturally remove it and leave no trace." Li Yuanji sneered a few times. Then attached it to Li Jiancheng's ear, and said it like this.
Li Jiancheng was ecstatic in his heart, this was indeed a good plan, and suddenly he thought of another person. said: "Wei Zheng persuaded me to be good friends with Li Shimin, is it too hasty to do this?" ”
"What is Wei Zheng!" Li Yuanji sneered at this: "People have passed the age of not being confused. If it weren't for the eldest brother's promotion, let him go to the mansion to be the prince and wash the horse, who knew that there was Wei Zheng before! ”
"Wei Zheng is courageous and far-sighted, and he does have something extraordinary. The fourth brother's words are too prejudiced. Li Jiancheng still said a word to Wei Zheng fairly.
"Okay, even if he is dedicated to the good of his eldest brother, no matter how good he is, can he be better than our two brothers? blindly showing goodwill, which made Li Shimin even more arrogant, he could only stabilize for a while, but he couldn't stabilize for a lifetime. Big brother, listen to my advice, at least we have to give it a try. Li Yuanji urged.
"It's okay, then wait for Li Shimin to subdue Luoyang, and let's take action immediately." Li Jiancheng thought about it again and again, and finally made up his mind.
Li Jiancheng thinks that what Li Yuanji said is very reasonable, and the biggest threat today is not that his father changed his hexagram and changed the crown prince, but that Li Shimin is too ostentatious, whether it is the current prince or the future emperor's identity, it will be a huge threat.
Li Yuanji immediately handled these matters, in his eyes, money and beauties and threats to the other party's family members are invincible magic weapons to win over them, and at most the third one can be used, and generally only the first two or one can be taken out.
Things gather by like, people by groups, Li Yuanji himself is greedy for money and lustful, of course, the level of friends he makes will not be high. For those who want to climb the high branches, they all want to bribe him, why bother King Qi to woo him again!
Li Shimin and the others didn't know about this, but this was the reality, he was in front of him to kill the enemy, but the rear was secretly trying to kill him.
If you don't do it, you won't die, and whoever does it will die.
Looking back, Wang Shichong fled back to Luoyang after defeat, and everyone persuaded him that victory and defeat were a common thing in soldiers, and there was no need to panic about this matter. Try a small battle, but you can find out the depth of Li Shimin's strength, this Xuanjia army is really powerful, but we still have Xiaoguowei in Luoyang Palace, which is also an elite army left by the previous dynasty, and its strength is only stronger than Li Shimin.
The Xuanjia Army is not only a new team, but also the number of people is not large, but our Xiaoguowei has as many as 5,000, and the advantage is greatly dropped~
These Xiaoguowei were originally brought by Yu Wenhua and Congjiangdu, originally there were as many as 10,000, after several wars, thousands of people were killed and fled, and there were 5,000 people left, only half of the original. However, even these 5,000 are enough to withstand at least 20,000 troops.
Xiao Guowei is indeed heroic, and most of them are loyal, whether in terms of combat experience or momentum, temporarily leading the Xuanjia army.
But Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army is not without strengths in comparison, that is, age, to be exact, physical strength. Why are most of the players in their twenties on the football field? Without overtime, 90 minutes of strenuous exercise, do you try to change to a forty-year-old?
Most of Xiao Guowei was over twenty years old when he was in the palace of the Sui Dynasty, and after he arrived in Jiangdu, he couldn't talk about the update, and he was still the original team. Today, some of them are even over thirty years old, and although there is still a significant gap compared to ordinary soldiers, they are much weaker than they were at the beginning, so the numerical advantage has been removed a lot.
However, the fortifications of Luoyang City were still very advanced at that time, and because they were newly built, they were naturally harder than the western capital of Chang'an, and the facilities were very complete.
With such self-comfort, Wang Shichong finally felt more down-to-earth in his heart. He also sent someone to investigate, but Li Shimin did not move, and he didn't know what his intentions were, so he could only wait and see what happened.
The psychological contest between the two hegemons is quietly beginning, and the subordinates of both sides are not idle. Cheng Yanjin, Luo Shixin and others all escaped from Luoyang, but they also made some friends, so they secretly sent letters, analyzed the disadvantages of the times, and sincerely invited them to join Li Tang's army.
The first is Shi Zhang Gongjin, the governor of Wei, who is still Luo Shixin's benefactor. This person is very cautious, and he is trying to survive in the cracks, but he does not belong to the wall, and he has his own loyalty and treachery debate in his heart.
At the beginning, Luo Shixin took refuge in him after being captured by Wang Shichong, but he was not treated very well, and he was classified into a group of unpopular people, and he was unwilling.
Luo Shixin has a BMW, the whole body is jujube red, but the four hooves are snow-white, walking like flying, and quite humane, originally given by Zhang Xutuo, Luo Shixin is very fond of it.
However, after arriving in Luoyang, this war horse was caught by Wang Shichong's nephew, and he was about to come with a cheeky face, and it was for nothing. Luo Shixin regarded this horse as a good friend, and he didn't sell his daughter, let alone give it to the obscene villain in front of him, so he vetoed it at that time.
Wang Shichong's nephew was angry, so he moved Wang Shichong to put pressure on Luo Shixin, Wang Shichong was busy at that time, and he couldn't care about it at all, so he casually sent a few guards, saying that this was a holy decree and must be given. Luo Shixin was helpless, and after a physical altercation with several guards, he gave his horse to Wang Shichong's nephew.
Wang Shichong's nephew was so happy that he clapped his hands and turned over on the horse, but the BMW knew the master, pouting his tail and flirting his hooves, but he refused to obey. Wang Shichong's nephew whipped and boxed to no avail, and finally got embarrassed and pulled out a knife and hacked the war horse to death.
The death of Aima in front of him made Luo Shixin sad at the same time, but also complained to Wang Shichong, such an emperor, such a royal family, what future can he have if he stays here, so he moved his mind to join Li Tang.
Luo Shixin fled in the middle of the night, was discovered, the pursuers behind him were relentless, and when he came to Weizhou, he was about to be caught up, Zhang Gongjin admired Luo Shixin, and hurriedly hid him in the secret room under his bedroom, and created the illusion of fleeing in the opposite direction.
After coaxing the pursuers, he gave Luo Shixin some coils, two changes of clothes and a war horse to cover his escape.
Therefore, Luo Shixin personally wrote a letter to Governor Shi Zhang Gongjin. In fact, Zhang Gongjin had already moved his mind, and without much hesitation, he immediately surrendered the city, and finally became Li Shimin's sitting down senior staff.
In order to invite merit, Zhang Gongjin wrote a letter to persuade his friend Governor Deng. After that, Tian Zhan, the governor of Xianzhou, surrendered to Li Tang with 25 prefectures, Xianzhou is located in the middle of Xiangyang and Luoyang in Hubei, Tian Zhan's surrender means that the two places are completely interrupted, although Xiangyang has not surrendered, it is actually precarious. In the same month, Shi Derui surrendered with the seven states of Kaicheng.
In addition to the loss of Xianzhou, which annoyed Wang Shichong, he finally made the mistake of being careless, thinking that these officials were all small people and dispensable.
If Wang Shichong had strictly controlled his subordinate officials at this time, or had given a promise of grace and power, the situation would not have deteriorated so quickly.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, but once there is a hole in the embankment, the water will pour for thousands of miles, and it is not possible to control it by manpower. In October of the third year of Wude, the weather had just turned cold, and it should have been a good time for Wang Shichong, the northerner, to make a big move.
Zhang Zhenzhou surrendered, Guanzhou Guo Qing surrendered, Xingyang Wei surrendered, Bianzhou Wang wanted Han surrender, one by one the devastating news came, in just three months, the counties around Luoyang have all fallen into the hands of Li Shimin, and the two sides only fought once. (To be continued)
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