Chapter 39: Preparing to join the Central Plains Battlefield
Ma Zhou is a person who knows the severity, and now that he heard the military report, he hurriedly entered the high staff mode, "Your Highness, no matter how brutal Yang Guang is, he is also the king of ....... Yu culture and killing the monarch for his own self....... many of the subordinates who follow him are the children of Guanzhong, and they are homesick...... Now that they have been severely damaged by the Wagang army, the road to the west to Guanzhong is obviously impassable, so their target can only be here........"
After Ma Zhou carefully studied the situation, he put forward his own opinion, he pointed to a place, that is, Wei County, for his judgment, Li Chengzong and Su Lie and other high-ranking officials of the Han army agreed or recognized, "Then Your Highness, should we send troops to attack Wei County?" When Su Lie heard that he could fight again, he suddenly felt itchy in his heart.
"Wei County? Hehehe, big brother, let's not fight Wei County first......" What the generals didn't expect was that Li Chengzong vetoed Su Lie's idea, could it be that His Royal Highness the King of Han wanted to stay out of the matter and sit and watch the heroes compete in the Central Plains?
Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Li Chengzong said unhurriedly, "We definitely want to eat Yu Wenhua and this piece of big fat meat, but not now, before we eat Yu Wenhua, we will first clean and clean the table where we eat......
Ma Zhou comprehended, he winked at Li Chengzong a few times, "Your Highness, do you mean that we can beat the surnamed Wang first?" ”
Li Chengzong laughed, "Those who know me, Brother Binwang!" ”
Li Chengzong and Ma Zhou, the two monarchs and ministers, were playing dumb riddles, but they were anxious for Su Lie and others, especially Su Lie, "I said, what kind of dumb riddles are you playing, what surname is Wang??" ”
As soon as Su Lie finished speaking, he heard Li Chengzong say, "Big brother, the surname I said to Brother Bin Wang is Wang Bo of Qizhou, some time ago, the old boy dared to attack us...... This time, I won't leave him alone, just kill him...... As long as we kill Wang Bo, we will have the opportunity to eat Yu Wenhua and this big fat meat......"
At the end of the combat meeting, when Li Chengzong was mobilizing before the war, he issued an order to enter, "Gentlemen, as long as we take Qizhou, we will immediately march west and join the Central Plains battlefield!! ”
The reason why Li Chengzong said this was because he got the information, Yu Wenhua and the defeat of Wei County, there was Dou Jiande's Hebei Righteous Army there, there was the power of Wang Shichong of Luoyang, and the army of Li Shentong and Cui Gan, the king of Huainan of the Tang Dynasty, so the situation was very complicated, Li Chengzong's Han State wanted to intervene in the Central Plains battlefield, but it was blocked by Qizhou occupied by Wang Bo.
Of course, this Wang Bo is also looking for his own death, who let him provoke Li Chengzong before, with Li Chengzong's military order issued, in the "Han army mighty!! In the slogan, the soldiers of the Han army shouted slogans and entered Qizhou under the leadership of the Jinyi guards who incarnated as political commissars, and Wang Bo, the leader of the rebel army who originally occupied Qizhou, abandoned the city and fled, and they went west to join the Sui generals who rebelled against Sui and killed Emperor Yang of Sui.
At the same time, Wei Xianyu Wenhua and here, Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenzhi and the brothers were borrowing wine in the mansion to kill their sorrows, "Second brother, we set off from Jiangdu with an army of 100,000, but now you can take a look...... We have two or three kittens left, and we can't sit on anything......" Yu Wenhua took a sip of wine, and then said to his second brother Yu Wen Zhihe.
Yes, when I left Jiangdu, but the 100,000 army, since the battle of Tongshan was defeated by Li Mi, his soldiers were killed and killed, surrendered and surrendered, and escaped and escaped, and now there are only a few thousand people left of the more than 100,000 people brought at the beginning, the north is the peasant leader Dou Jiande, and the south is Li Mi's fierce general Xu Shiji, and Yu Wenhua and the two brothers can do nothing, they can only retreat in this place in Wei County, they have nothing to do and they borrow wine all day long to drown their sorrows, and the same is true today.
"Second brother, what kind of boat did you say you pulled me on, isn't this a thief ship??" Yu Wenhua drank a little high, he couldn't help but complain about his second brother, but Yu Wenzhi is not a fuel-efficient lamp, "Big brother speaks with a conscience, you didn't say that when things were going well, what do you mean by saying such things now?" ”
After he finished speaking, the two brothers could only hug their heads and cry, but what was the use of that? In the days of holding the wine jar all day long, the world has changed, Li Yuan has already been proclaimed emperor, Yang Tong in the south has been killed, and now the emperor of Luoyang is Wang Shichong, and Li Mi, who once defeated them, has also been defeated, but the two of them can only cry here, which means that their political career is over.
After crying bitterly, Yu Wenhua and this gentleman couldn't help but sigh: "Since everyone is going to die, why don't I taste what it's like to be an emperor?" Yu Wenhua and this guy did what they said, so they sent people to kill the puppet emperor Yang Hao who he had set up, changed the country name Xu, Jianyuan to Tianshou, and signed a hundred officials, openly claiming to be the emperor in a small county town......
Soon after he became emperor, Li Shentong, the king of Huainan of the Tang Dynasty, attacked Yu Wenhua in Wei County, but Yu Wenhua could not resist and fled east to Liaocheng. Li Shentong conquered Wei County, killed and captured more than 2,000 people, led troops to pursue Yu Wenhua and Liaocheng, and surrounded Liaocheng. Next, Li Shentong attacked Liaocheng, Yu Wenhua and because the army ran out of food, so he asked to surrender, Li Shentong did not accept, Cui Gan asked to accept Yu Wenhua's surrender, Li Shentong said, "The army has been exposed for a long time, now Yu Wenhua and the army are exhausted, and they will be able to win immediately, they should fight to capture Liaocheng, seize their property to reward the soldiers, if you accept his surrender, then what is used to reward the army?" ”
Cui Gan said, "Lord Wang, do you know that Dou Jiande is about to arrive in Liaocheng, if we have not pacified Yu Wenhua and suffered enemies inside and outside, our army will inevitably fail, how can we still covet property and not accept surrender?" ”
Li Shentong was furious and imprisoned Cui Gan in the army.
Soon, Yu Wenhua's younger brother Yu Wenshi and transported grain from Jibei to receive Ji Yu Wenhua, and Yu Wenhua's troops gradually recovered, so he resisted again. Li Shentong led the army to attack the city, and Zhao Junde, the assassin of Beizhou, took the lead in climbing the city wall, Li Shentong was jealous of his merits and withdrew his troops without fighting.
Zhao Junde was angry and scolded the city wall, so he failed to conquer it. Li Shentong could only send his troops to Wei County to move siege equipment, but was defeated by the local armed men of Shen County, which coincided with the imminent arrival of Dou Jiande's army, and Li Shentong had no choice but to lead the army to retreat. Li Shentong hated this, if only Li Chengzong, a little rabbit cub, listened to his command, the strong pawn in his hand was drooling when he saw it.
Just as Li Shentong retreated and Dou Jiande was preparing to attack Liaocheng, Li Chengzong saw the opportunity to make a move, Li Chengzong, Su Lie, and Pei Renji, who ran out of Wagangzhai not long ago to defect to Li Chengzong, Pei Xingyan and his son crossed Jishui with 50,000 elite Han army and went straight to Liaocheng to join the Central Plains battlefield.