Chapter 768 Tactics (3)
The pre-war tranquility was very short, and by the afternoon of this day, the reports of the incoming visits were suddenly intensive.
There were repeated enemy traces in the direction of Wannian County, and the scouts were entangled and fighting on the road to Wannian County, fighting wits and courage, and the further they went, the more scouts the Tang army had.
There are all kinds of signs that there is indeed a large army stationed in the direction of Wannian County, but I don't know how many people there are, and who is leading the troops.
And this is definitely not the local defenders of Chang'an or Chang'an County, a large army that is ready to fight and a temporarily assembled, unorganized army are completely different things.
Towards evening, after paying a great price, the scouts in front finally got some news from the captured Tang soldiers, and some of the scouts also broke through the obstruction of the Tang army and went to the vicinity of Wannian County.
Under the confirmation of the two phases, the news became accurate at once.
There are military camps all over the county seat of Wannian County, and it is impossible to count them, but it is estimated that it should be about 100,000 people, which is already a large-scale army.
As for whether this Tang army is elite and where it comes from, even the captured Tang soldiers are very confused, and only one thing is very clear [Shuquge quge.xyz] that they are all temporarily stationed in Wannian County on standby, and they are under the orders of the Tiance Mansion.
Admiral Tiance, Li Shimin, King of Qin.
It's expected, but it's surprising.
Unexpectedly, only Li Erlang is so cunning, and among the Li family, it seems that only Li Shimin can fight, this is a matter of life and death, as long as Li Yuan is not old and confused, it is reasonable for Li Shimin to appear on the other side.
What is unexpected is that the reports have always said that Li Er served as the left servant of Shangshu in Chang'an, which can be described as a high power, and at the moment when the crown prince Li Jiancheng was guarding Tongguan, it seems unlikely that Li Shimin would appear in Wannian County so quietly.
Is it that amazing that Destiny's Child?
Li Erlang was very headache when he really appeared, this person made up his mind and then moved, but his courage was much greater than that of others, he did not lack courage, and the person with enough brains was destined to be an extremely difficult opponent.
And when his figure looms, it is even more vigilant, if Li Shimin really appears in Wannian County, then it proves that the attack on Tang at this time is all in the calculation of others.
The Jin army will then gradually enter the battlefield preset by others and come to a battle with no chance of winning.
Seeing that the Jin army was already at a strategic disadvantage, the Tang army was not comfortable.
The Jin army started with cavalry, coming and going, like the wind, and the sentry of the army was even more accustomed to it, and it was almost an impossible task to raid such an army.
When the Jin army on the shore gradually increased in number and the minions were stretched, the Tang army's investigation report became chaotic, especially the road between the Tang army and Feng Yi, which was gradually obscured by the Jin army, and the first impression given to the Tang army stationed in Wannian was that Feng Yi was surrounded.
Wannian County Office, Li Shimin lived in the hall, and in less than a day, the situation turned critical, which was indeed a bit unexpected.
Li Po suspected that the army crossed the river too slowly, but the Tang army felt that the Jin army crossed the river too fast, which was a few points worse than the worst situation that Li Shimin and the generals had discussed before.
And the Jin army sentry rode fast, not a day, it has come to Jingzhaozuo, although Li Shimin and Li Po have fought several times in a row over the years, and have suffered enough of the Jin army's too elite losses, but in comparison, the performance of the Jin army still surprised him.
Even Li Shimin was thinking in his heart, if he had such a strong army, why worry about the world? Well, according to the words of later generations, this is the real envy, jealousy and hatred.
Over the years, the strength and weakness have changed the situation, and even the half-crossing attack needs to be carefully calculated, neither too much nor less, which is really a headache.
Above the county hall, everyone discussed for a long time and gradually divided into two factions.
On the one hand, I felt that I should wait a little longer, the army of more than 100,000 people, plus the department of Li Shenfu, the king of Xiangyi County, who guarded Feng Yi, was enough to say that the troops were strong, and the elite of the Tang army accounted for most of them.
The other is the opponents, they think that behind everyone is Chang'an, once the enemy is allowed to gain a foothold, it will be a disaster, the enemy army is invincible and victorious, the Tang army is undefeated and defeated, at that time, no one can turn the tide again, even if Qu Tutong leads the army to help, it will not be successful.
However, no one advocated returning to the defense division, otherwise a few heads would have to be dropped.
What made Li Shimin laugh and cry the most was that the order from Chang'an was belated, and Wannian County immediately recruited strong men and men to rush to Weinan within three days to listen to the order.
Weinan is the seat of the Shaanxi East Road Xingtai, and there is nothing to find fault with in the location, but the time is too slow, if you really want to follow such a schedule, after three or four days, not to mention that the Jin army has crossed the river, it is estimated that the entire Fengyi County has been lost.
Chang'an's Weifu general's order, the military department's order, and even the emperor's edict must have gone to more than one place in Wannian County, and it may even have been sent back to the east.
But still in that sentence, Chang'an's reaction was too slow.
In recent years, the prince and the king of Qin have been fighting constantly, and once it comes to a critical juncture, it will also make Chang'an's military administrative system sluggish like a twilight old man.
In fact, by the evening of this day, Li Po had not complained bitterly, and Li Shimin couldn't hold it first.
There are many reasons, first of all, the scouts of the Jin army are approaching Wannian County more and more frequently, and they have obviously discovered the abnormality here, and the elite of the Jin army is also manifested here.
The scouts surrounded Wannian County like wolves, even if the damage became more and more serious, they couldn't patrol themselves, and after a while, the reality of the Wannian County army could not be hidden.
Moreover, the last handwritten battle report of Li Shenfu, the king of Xiangyi County, well, it can also be said that the letter asking for help also came to Li Shimin, and thousands of the vanguard of the Jin army have arrived under Feng Yicheng.
What does this mean Li Shimin naturally knows that the number of people crossing the river in the Jin army is not a small number, this is a large army stretching its body and creating room for maneuver on the battlefield.
In addition, something that made Li Shimin even more upset happened.
Chang'an urgently ordered the prince Li Jiancheng to Weinan, leading the Shaanxi East Road to the Taiwan Military Department, and the other as the general manager of the Shaanxi East Road marching army, under the jurisdiction of the riverside army, Jingzhao, Feng Yi and other county defenders, and the people were all requisitioned and transferred at will.
Naturally, this edict was not sent to Tongguan, but came directly to Li Shimin's table.
First the crown prince returned to Beijing, and now he has been entrusted with the important task of military state, obviously the prince is still the prince, and his poor performance in Tongguan has not damaged his weight in the emperor's mind.
After Li Shimin read this edict, he hated to burn the entire Chang'an City.
Now his enemies are not only menacing, Li Ding'an, the king of Han who is ready to demolish the Li family's ancestral hall, but also his father and brothers, so the only one who can't hold his breath first can be him Li Shimin.
He can't wait any longer, if he waits any longer, not only will he be in danger of defeat, but he may also shoot poisoned arrows from behind him.
And His Royal Highness the King of Qin's task is very heavy, first to defeat a strong enemy, and then to take advantage of the power of a great victory, turn around and reason with his father and brother, and then, purge the situation, appease the vassals everywhere, etc.
Li Shimin slowly tore up the edict, cheered himself up, gathered everyone, and ordered the army to immediately pull out the camp and rush to Feng Yi overnight.
More than 100,000 troops set off, and the momentum will naturally not be small, and they will no longer be able to escape the prying eyes of scouts.
With the banner of Admiral Li fluttering in the night sky, this battle that decided the ownership of Xijing finally kicked off completely......
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The war at the end of the Sui Dynasty came to this year, and the lack of succession became more obvious.
The two Li contended, and the total mobilized troops did not exceed 300,000.
Dou Jiande shrank his head and looked at it, and finally did not dare to cross the river into Henan, but let the army reclaim the fields on the spot and grow food.
Xiao Miao, who was in a hurry, had no time to look around, and was in a hurry to clean up the mess.
Du Fuwei had no ambitions, had no interest in competing with others, and watched coldly, but lived more and more comfortably, and even his subordinates became lazy and out of energy.
In the northwest direction, Li Liang is dead, after a turmoil in Guzang City, the vitality of Liangguo is greatly damaged, and the subsequent chaos is one after another, and he is unable to fulfill his previous promise and attack Li Tang together.
What's even more ridiculous is that Liang Shidu, after losing the support of the Turks, no longer dares to spy outside Lingzhou, and even his own chassis is almost unable to keep, and it is a matter of time before he becomes a rogue.
The big waves washed the sand, and the vigorous uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty came to this day, and there were only a few survivors left of those famous big people in the world, and most of them still looked disgraced, which is very ironic.
In fact, one more interesting thing happened this year.
On the peninsula far from the Central Plains, Goguryeo suffered a great loss of vitality after several "victories", and it can be said that by this time, the three most powerful empires in Asia were all broken and bleeding in the collision with each other, and fell into a dying situation.
This obviously cheapens their opponents.
For example, when the Great Sui fell into war, the Tuyuhun tribes in the northwest gradually returned to their hometowns.
As a result of the Turkic civil strife, the Tiele tribe was divided, the enemies in the north were asserted, and some tribes in the northeast were also freed from the control of the Turks and showed signs of prosperity.
The same is true of Goguryeo, which finally survived by its capriciousness and achieved a series of "brilliant victories", Goguryeo inevitably became chaotic.
The Silla people, who had been oppressed by Goguryeo, found an opportunity to regain the glory of their ancestors, so Queen Neo-Rodoseon sent envoys across the sea to prepare an alliance with the Sui people, who had suffered great losses, and together drove the Goguryeo people into the sea to feed the fish......