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"Liu Wuzhou, the concubine remembers that her husband also knows, when we went out of Mayi and sent an envoy to the Turks, he was the guide......" Red Sleeves first told Liu Wuzhou at this time.

Yu Ming nodded, he naturally remembered Liu Wuzhou, this guy spoke fluent Turkic and had outstanding combat ability, which left a deep impression on him.

Liu Wuzhou was born into a wealthy family. From 612 to 614 AD, when Yang Guangci attacked Goryeo, Liu Wuzhou was recruited for the Eastern Expedition and was promoted to the rank of captain of Jianjie for his military exploits. The Eastern Expeditionary Division was returned, and Liu Wuzhou returned to Mayi and served as the captain of Yingyang Mansion.

In the tenth year of the Great Cause (617 AD), Liu Wuzhou took advantage of the great chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty to kill Ma Yi Shou Wang Rengong, open a warehouse to help the poor, gallop through the territory, and won more than 10,000 soldiers, claiming to defend himself. In order to gain a foothold, he sent emissaries attached to the Turkic Churo Khan.

In the Sui Dynasty, Chen Xiaoyi and Hu Ben of Yanmen County joined forces to recruit Liu Wuzhou and besieged him in Sangqian Town (now Shanyinnan, Shanxi). Liu Wuzhou invoked the Turkic cavalry to attack the Sui army, Wang Zhibi was defeated and killed, Chen Xiaoyi ran back to Yanmen County, was killed by his subordinates, and dedicated the city to Liu Wuzhou.

Liu Wuzhou then took advantage of the situation to attack Loufu County and enter Fenyang Palace. In order to obtain further support from the Turks, Liu Wuzhou presented the captured palace maids of the Fenyang Palace of the Sui Dynasty to the Turkic Luo Khan, who gave him a war horse. Liu Wuzhou then strengthened his troops, captured Dingxiang, and returned to the army to occupy the northeastern part of the river.

In order to support his agents in the Central Plains, Chuluo Khan canonized Liu Wuzhou as "Dingyang Khan" and gave him the banner of "Wolf Head".

Liu Wuzhou then proclaimed himself emperor, changed the Yuan Tianxing, and then led troops to attack Yanmen County and besieged the city for more than a day. Chen Xiaoyi tried his best to refuse, and his subordinate Zhang Lun assassinated Chen Xiaoyi and surrendered to Liu Wuzhou. Song Jingang, the leader of the rebel army in Shiyi Prefecture, originally united with Wei Dao'er, was defeated by Dou Jiande, and led more than 4,000 people to defect to Liu Wuzhou, which strengthened his momentum. Liu Wuzhou heard that Song Jingang was good at using soldiers, and he was very happy, and named Song Jingang the king of Song, entrusted him with the military, and divided half of the family property to him. Song Jingangxiu went to his original wife and hired Liu Wuzhou's sister as his wife.

In June of the tenth year of the Great Cause, Liu Wuzhou accepted Song Jingang's suggestion to "enter Jinyang (now Shanxiyuan) and fight for the world in the south", and led 20,000 troops to invade the state (Jinyang). In July, he united with the Turks and stationed in Huangsheling (now north of Yuci, Shanxi), and his troops were very strong.

Li Yuanji, the governor of the Tang Dynasty and the king of Qi, sent Zhang Da, a chariot general, to lead his infantry to resist, but Liu Wuzhou killed the whole army. Liu Wuzhou then attacked Yuci County (now Yuci, Shanxi). In August, Liu Wuzhou captured Ping. In September, it occupied Jiezhou (now Jiexiu, Shanxi).

At this time, Li Yuan sent Chang Shaoqing Li Zhong as the head of the camp, and Jiang Baoyi, the general of the Left Guard, led troops to rescue the state, but was defeated by Liu Wuzhou's general Huang Ying in the Bird Mouse Valley (in present-day Jiexiujing, Shanxi).

At this time, because Li Shimin was fighting with Xuju, the Tang army could not draw extra troops, and Li Yuan could only send his right servant Pei Lin as the head of the march on Jinzhou Road (now Linfen, Shanxi) to supervise the army to resist Liu Wuzhou.

In October, Pei Lin went to Jiexiu, Song Jingang rejected the city, the two sides fought in Yuan (under Jiexiu Jieshan), the Tang army was defeated, and Pei Lin fled back to Jinzhou alone. Liu Wuzhou was like a bamboo, and he forced Jinyang; Li Yuanji and his wife and concubine abandoned the state overnight and returned to Chang'an. Liu Wuzhou also captured Jinyang, the birthplace of Li Tang.

In November, Liu Wuzhou sent Song Jingang south to capture Jinzhou, advance to Jiangzhou (now Xinjiang, Shanxi), occupy Longmen (now Hejin, Shanxi), and capture Huzhou (now Yicheng, Shanxi). At the same time, Lu Chongmao of Xia County called himself the King of Wei, echoing Liu Wuzhou; The old general of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Xingben, was based in Puban (now Yongjibei, Shanxi) and joined forces with Song Jingang.

At this point, most of Shanxi was under the jurisdiction of Liu Wuzhou, and Tang only had a corner of the southwest of Jin on the east bank of the Yellow River, and Guanzhong was greatly shaken. Even Li Yuan was a little panicked, and issued a letter of "The thief is so powerful, it is difficult to fight, it is better to abandon the east of the river and guard the western part of the country".

Red Sleeves said this, paused, and then continued: "But now that the Western Qin established by Xue Ju and Xue Rengao's father has fallen, Li Tang has been able to get out of Longxi. According to recent information received from Chang'an, Li Yuan had ordered Li Shimin to be the commander-in-chief and lead an army of 200,000 people to Hedong in an attempt to repel Liu Wuzhou and prevent him from marching towards Guanzhong. ”

"It seems that Liu Wuzhou is in danger!" Yu Ming sighed at this time and said: "Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang are indeed brave and good at fighting, but they are much worse than Li Shimin. The Tang army in Hedong before was commanded by Li Yuanji's stupid man, and Li Tang would naturally be defeated again and again. But now that the Tang Army has replaced Li Shimin as the coach, if we don't interfere, Liu Wuzhou will be defeated! ”

When Red Sleeves heard this, she was slightly stunned, although she also thought that Li Shimin was a talent, she didn't attach much importance to him. Before Li Shimin's defeat of Xue Ju's battle. In her opinion, it was mainly because Xue Ju died of a violent illness, and Xue Rengao was brave and unscrupulous.

"Husband, do you think of Li Shimin too much? Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang are both wise and brave generals! Even if they can't break into Guanzhong, there is no problem in keeping the land east of the river, right? Red Sleeves frowned at this time.

Because Liu Wuzhou had a friendship with Yuming to envoy to the Turks, and Yuming did not want his flank to be threatened, he has always maintained friendly relations with Liu Wuzhou. Although the two sides did not form an alliance on the surface, they privately agreed not to attack each other. Therefore, Yuming dared to attack Dou Jiande with a large army and took Shandong and Hebei into his pocket.

"Sister Red Sleeves, others can be despised by others, Li Shimin is absolutely despised, only in terms of the ability to command operations, he is definitely not pressed against me, and may even be above me!" Yuming is colorful.

After hearing this, Red Sleeves was even more surprised, she never expected that Yuming would give Li Shimin such a high evaluation.

"So what do we do now? The troops are still in the period of recuperation, do you want to let them stop recuperating and devote themselves to the Hedong battlefield again? She is obedient to Yu Ming, although she doesn't believe that Li Shimin is so powerful, but she will never question Yu Ming's inference.

After Yu Ming thought for a moment, Fang said: "The troops who have already participated in the Shandong and Hebei campaigns must not be allowed to participate in the Hedong Expedition again. This king cannot be unfaithful to them. ”

"Husband, how do you send troops to Hedong?" Red Sleeves was slightly stunned.

"Let the 100,000 troops who stayed in Beiping go out on the expedition! It's time to talk about their activities! Yu Ming got up at this time and said, "Sister Red Sleeves, inform Master and Lin Mo, Qin Qiong, Cheng Biting Jin, and Luo Shixin that we will set off in five days!" ”

After hearing this, Red Sleeves nodded, and then summoned Li Jing and the others over.

After Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin and others came to the study, they listened to the introduction of Red Sleeves, but they were all a little worried, because almost all the troops left in Beiping were recruits transferred from Liaodong, and their combat effectiveness was not strong.

Yu Ming saw the worry in their hearts, so he said: "Brothers, you don't have to worry too much, in this battle, our army mainly uses its strength to strengthen Liu Wuzhou's courage. It is mainly up to this Dingyang Khan himself to defeat the Tang army. What we have to do is to prevent him from making mistakes in the war and being defeated by Li Shimin by seizing the opportunity. ”

At this time, Li Jing frowned slightly and said, "Ming'er, according to the teacher, I'm afraid that I have to send someone to contact Liu Wuzhou first." Although our army had a good relationship with him, when he confronted the Tang army, our army suddenly appeared behind him, and I was afraid that his first reaction would not be that we were here to help him, but that we were here to seize his territory. ”

Yu Ming also reacted immediately at this moment, he was from the later generations, and naturally understood the historical process, knowing that Liu Wuzhou would be defeated by Li Shimin. But at the moment, Li Shimin is just starting out and is not famous.

On the contrary, Liu Wuzhou has won consecutive battles and his morale is booming. Based on his own understanding of this person's character, he would never think that he was not Li Shimin's opponent, and he would come to assist him for the purpose of his purpose. I'm afraid that it will be seen that the Zhou army is coming to snatch the fruits of victory and occupy the territory of Hedong.

At that time, it is possible that he has not met Li Shimin yet, so he will fight Liu Wuzhou first.

Thinking of this, Yu Ming turned his head to Lin Mo and said, "Mo, you once went to the Turks with me, and it was Liu Wuzhou who served as a guide at that time, and you have been with him for many days, so you are quite familiar...... I will take you as an envoy to Liu Wuzhou, and explain to him the intention of our troops, so as to dispel his worries and avoid unnecessary disputes with our army! ”

"Okay! The last general must do his best to convince Liu Wuzhou! Lin Mo bowed down and said. At that time, his friendship with Liu Wuzhou was the best in the envoy corps, and the two of them were both low-level officers and had similar experiences, so they could talk very well. Yu Ming was also very aware of this matter, so this was also the reason why he chose to let Lin Mo envoy.

After Yu Ming discussed the supply of grain and grass with Li Jing again, Fang got up and said: "Brothers, Hedong is the flank barrier of my Great Zhou, once it is lost to Li Yuan, Hebei and Youzhou will be exposed to the attack spearhead of the Tang army, and our army will be seriously dragged down when it goes south to the Central Plains. Therefore, this battle must not be lost! I hope you all will cheer up and win this tough battle! ”

"The last general will definitely live up to the trust of King Zhou!" All the generals hugged their fists in unison.

Except for Li Jing, the expressions on their faces were relatively relaxed, believing that their own side occupied a favorable position in this battle, and after counting Liu Wuzhou's army, the strength of the army reached about 400,000, which was twice that of the Tang army. Although Li Shimin showed amazing command and combat ability in the battle with Xue Ju, it was also the reason why the Western Qin army was incompetent and Xue Rengao was brave and unscrupulous. This battle should be easily won, and maybe even take advantage of the situation to enter the pass.

Yu Ming was also worried when he saw his subordinates with such expressions. He knew that this was caused by the easy victory of the Zhou army in the last few wars. Therefore, the generals under his command were a little proud and complacent, thinking that Yang Guangtian had failed to defeat Goryeo, which had not been defeated by the whole country, had been destroyed by themselves. Isn't it easy to deal with the armies of the Central Plains?

"Alright! Let's go back and prepare! Depart in 5 days! Seeing this, Yu Ming could only shake his head, he hoped that when confronting the Tang army, there would be an appropriate small defeat, so that the Zhou army could wake up from top to bottom and no longer be self-righteous.

(End of volume)

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