Chapter 1277: Battle Dragon City (Part I)

The reason why the Sui army can compete with the Tang army is mainly because it has Yang Jian, Lu Bu and Hou Yi, the three super god generals, and now the three of them have broken away from the Sui army together, which is even bigger for the Sui army than losing Guanzhong.

After Yang Guang learned that Lu Bu and Hou Yi had also left, he regretted letting Yang Jian go, he thought that it was his tolerance that gave Lu Bu and Hou Yi the courage to leave, but they didn't know that Lu Bu and Hou Yi never belonged to the Sui army.

Lu Bu is Ding Yuan's righteous son, and Hou Yi is the first emperor Tuogu general, they were both forced to surrender to Dong Zhuo, and this also laid a hidden danger for Dong Zhuo's death later.

When Dong Zhuo was still alive, the two of them were naturally honest and did not dare to make the slightest move, but after Dong Zhuo died, it may not be possible, not to mention that even Yang Jian is dead now.

You must know that even Yang Guang's father, Yang Jian, has never really convinced Lu Bu and Hou Yi, they just use each other and take what they need.

The reason why Lu Bu and Hou Yi stayed by Yang Jian's side to serve was only because Yang Jian was most likely to unify the Liang army at that time, and they were also caught in the whirlpool of public opinion due to Dong Zhuo's death, so they had to temporarily serve Yang Jian.

After Yang Jian's death, Yang Guang succeeded to the throne as the king of Sui, if Yang Guang can win the duel with Li Shimin and finally unify Kansai, then Lu Bu and Hou Yi may be loyal to Yang Guang, but Yang Guang still lost Li Shimin in the end, then they will naturally not continue to serve Yang Guang.

In general, although Yang Guang has lost Yang Jian, Lu Bu, and Hou Yi, the three super god generals, he still has Yang Su, Gao Ying, Wu Yunzhao, Shi Wansui, He Ruobi, Li Huanzhang, Yao Gonglin, Zhijian, Guo Shen and other civil and military ministers to assist.

With Yang Guang's current lineup of Wenwu, he may not be able to deal with Li Shimin, but in the territory of Liangzhou, he is definitely a well-deserved overlord, of course, it is definitely not easy for him to unify Liangzhou.

The corresponding situation of Li Shimin is not much better than Yang Guang.

By overthrowing Yang Jian, Li Shimin not only got the allegiance of the Liang family, but also the allegiance of many Sui generals.

Tang Department: Li Yuanba, Li Xiuning, Li Xiaogong, Li Keyong, Li Maozhen, Li Chunfeng, Li Yu, Changsun Wuji, Du Ruhui, Chai Shao, Hou Junji, Yin Kaishan......

Liang: Hua Xiong, Li Dao, Guo Yan, Niu Fu, Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu, Hu Che'er, Hu Chi'er......

Sui series: Yu Wenshu, Xin Wenli, Yu Juluo, Shang Master and Apprentice, Zuo Tiancheng......

After Yang Jian returned to the Yang family, Li Shimin went to the Yang family to recruit Yang Jian in person, regardless of his previous suspicions, and Yang Biao said good things to Li Shimin on the side.

In the end, after Li Shimin and Yang Jian made a gentleman's agreement, promising Yang Jian never to let him 'become an enemy of Yang Guang', he not only subdued Yang Jian, a peerless general who was not inferior to Li Yuanba, but also attached Kang Anyu and Zhang Boshi, two god generals.

So at present, in terms of talent lineup, the talents under Li Shimin's command are definitely second only to Qin Hao in terms of quality and quantity, and a new overlord of Kansai is about to stand in the land of Kansai again.

Although Li Shimin inherited Dong Zhuo's foundation, he was not ready to inherit the banner of the word 'Liang', but like Yang Jian, he wanted to build his own power, Tang.

Yang Jian's change from Liang to Sui was opposed by all the Liang generals, while Li Shimin's change from Liang to Tang was supported by everyone.

First of all, after experiencing such a great internal conflict, the generals of the Liang family also accepted the fact that Dong Zhuo was dead, they could not be immersed in the glory of the past, and they must have a new hero to lead them to write a new legend.

Secondly, with Yang Jian's usurpation in front, the generals of the Liang family are no longer as resistant to changing the flag as they were at the beginning.

Finally, the identity of Li Shimin and Dong Zhuo's son-in-law can allow the generals of the Liang family to accept the change of flag.

After all, the newly-born Tang Army was formed on the basis of the Liang Army, so Li Shimin wanted to completely get rid of Dong Zhuo's influence and thus brand himself, which was definitely not something that could be done in the short term.

However, Li Shimin was not in a hurry at all, everything went naturally and slowly, preparing to boil a frog in warm water and moisten things silently.

After Li Shimin unified Yongzhou, he was originally going to immediately send troops to seize Liangzhou, but he gave up this plan under Du Ruhui's persuasion.

Du Ruhui, who was lucky to save his life under Yang Jian's assassination, stated to Li Shimin the four major disadvantages of marching into Liangzhou at this time:

1, the previous infighting consumed a lot of vitality in Guanzhong, the Tang Army's military strength was greatly damaged, and the army was determined, so it was really not suitable to fight again;

2, Liangzhou has Yang Guang, Ma Teng, Han Sui, Qiang four forces, the strength of the major warlords is not weak, even if they send troops, they may not be able to occupy Liangzhou, they will only lose both;

3, Yelu Abaoji, the king of Qiang, will never sit idly by and watch the Tang army dominate Liangzhou, and will definitely turn against the Liangzhou warlords when necessary;

4, sooner or later, a big war will break out between the forces of all parties in Liangzhou, and when they are almost consumed by each other, the Tang army will be able to easily seize Liangzhou as they move westward.

To sum up the above four points, Li Shimin understands that for the current Tang Army, the most important thing is not to expand the territory, but to recuperate.

The Tang Army in Guanzhong stopped fighting and ceased fighting, and while sitting and watching the battle of Hetao, it also began to recuperate with all its might, sorting out the internal affairs of the army.

Li Shimin did not take advantage of the victory to pursue and attack Liangzhou, but chose to rest and recuperate, which made Zhou Yu of Hangu Pass jump, and he even suspected that Li Shimin was suspected of taking the opportunity to recapture Hangu Pass.

However, the current Qin army has no war in either Sizhou or Jingbei, even if Li Shimin takes advantage of this to lead the army eastward, the Qin army also has sufficient military strength to support Hangu Pass, so Zhou Yu is not too worried.

What Zhou Yu didn't expect was that after Li Shimin stopped his army, not only did he not invade Hangu Pass, but instead donated 10,000 Dan to the Qin army, saying that it was to help the Qin army fight against foreign races.

The Battle of Hetao attracted the attention of the princes of the world, but ignored the remote land of Yizhou, where a war against foreign races was also underway.

The war was fought without the assistance of the princes all the way, but the combined forces of Liu Ji and Liu Yu still won the victory, repelling the southern barbarian army of Chiyou in present-day Yizhou.

At the same time, before Bai Qi was about to lead the army to Yinshan City, the decisive battle on the grassland broke out in advance.

Although Temujin ordered all the tribes south of Longcheng to move north, the relocation of the entire tribe was not so simple, and no matter how fast they migrated, it was impossible to be faster than the speed of the Han cavalry.

In just ten days, the two cavalry of Huo Qubing and Zhuge Liang, who were out of the fortress, successively destroyed a large tribe, six medium-sized tribes, and eleven small tribes in Yuanmeng, slaughtered more than 300,000 Yuanmeng herdsmen in total, and burned nearly 1,000 miles of fertile pasture.

The grasslands south of Dragon City were completely scorched.