Chapter 72: The Cause of Victory and Defeat (II)
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Luoyang, now has become the world's attention to the place, the Tang army out of Tongguan in the east, under the planning and command of Li Er, successively captured Longmen, Huiluocheng, Luokou and other important places, cut off its tiger prison to Luoyang grain road, planned to retreat Bianzhou (Zhijunyi, that is, Kaifeng, Henan in later generations) host reinforcements, cut off Luoyang's outward contact; At the same time, in the battles of Bishan and Gushui (a tributary of the Luohe River), the Zheng army, which had repeatedly defeated Wang Shichong, captured many people.
Dozens of states such as Xianzhou, Weizhou, and Guanzhou successively surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang army took advantage of the situation to encircle Luoyang. During this period, the Turkic Jieli Khan supervised the army to invade the southern regions of Bingzhou, Yuanzhou, and Yanzhou, threatening the Tang army to fight in the Central Plains. On the one hand, Li Yuan and the old man Li ordered to strengthen the defense of various strategic points in the north, sent envoys to retreat the Turkic army, and on the other hand, ordered the use of Weishui and the Yellow River to transfer materials and ensure the supply of the front.
The Tang army besieged Luoyang under the command of Li Er, and stormed for more than ten days, but even the city wall of Luoyang City did not climb up, there was no way who let the Tang army still be an army in the era of cold weapons, only relying on ladders and trebuchets It is impossible to directly break through the world's Xiongcheng like Luoyang, so that the Tang army is tired of generals, and the senior generals of the Tang Army led by Liu Hongji and others asked for Chang'an, and Li Yuan and the old man Li also gave Li Er a secret order to ask Li Er to withdraw his troops.
After careful consideration, Li Er thought that he could not withdraw the army, so he tried his best to dispel public opinion and sent someone to persuade Old Man Li. After the Tang army moved into the trapped Luoyang, the city ran out of food. Wang Shichong had no choice, and he couldn't care about the fact that his general Zhang Zhenzhou surrendered to Li Han, so he could only continue to send his eldest grandson An Shi to Qindao to ask Li Chengzong for help.
In the palace of Qindao Palace, Li Chengzong and Yang Rong, a couple of travelers, were talking about the Central Plains battlefield that the Han army under their rule was about to join, "Ah Wei, let me ask you, do you know why Li Er won the final victory in the original time and space, and why Dou Jiande, who was highly regarded in Hebei, was defeated in the battle of Tiger Prison Pass, and was finally captured by Li Er, and then lost his life in Chang'an?" Yang Rong looked at her husband and asked with a smile.
"Hehehe, this, I, I really know a little bit about it...... Li Er did not choose to attack Luoyang City directly, don't look at Luoyang City as a lonely city, but in fact, Luoyang is backed by mountains and water, and there are many supporting small cities and strongholds around. To the east of Luoyang is Luokou (the confluence of rivers and Luo), near Yanshi, Baiguwu Passes, and far away there are dangerous tiger prisons that can be helped. The terrain in the north is the most complicated, the main stream of the Yellow River in Luobei, the south of the river has the three mouths of Heyin, Dengjin and Mengjin for crossing the river, and the north of the river has Heyang, Dengxiang, Yeban, and Beizhongcheng points to control the channel, and there is Hanoi County in the distance for support; In the north of Luoyang City, there is also a mountain in the north of Luoyang City, which is not very high, but the tactical significance is rich enough to bomb, and both the attacking and defending sides can launch a large corps action on this basis. Luoshui tributaries such as Qian, Ci and Gu in the west can be defended in echelons, and key points such as Yiyang, Xin'an, Gucheng, Jiuqu and Duliu can also provide peripheral defense, supplies and support for Luoyang. The south is mainly Yishui and Yiquekou, and the tactical significance is mainly to guard the Luonan main road...... "Li Chengzong was a military doctor in his previous life, but he was still a special officer, and he had received a complete strategic and tactical education......
Li Chengzong unfolded a map, and then pointed to Luoyang and other places above and said to Yang Rong, "As far as I know, Li Er attacked Luoyang, and before the official start of the battle, he sent Shi Wanbao from Yiyang to the south of Longmen, Liu Dewei from Taihang to the east to encircle Hanoi, Wang Junkuo from Luokou to cut off the grain road, Huang Junhan from Xiaoshui into the river to attack back to Luocheng (Mengjin Ferry Pass), only the west is left for the main army to attack. From the layout point of view, the east, west, north and south sides have been choked, the tentacles that Luoyang stretches out to all sides have been cut off, and the large-area defense has been compressed to the periphery of Luoyang City......
As for Dou Jiande, I can't say, because Li Er's defeat of Dou Jiande is an accident in my opinion, if it weren't for Dou Jiande's negligence, hehehe, I don't know who wins and who loses......"
"Giggles, Ah Wei, although you beat Dou Jiande in the battle of Liaocheng with a great loss of vitality, and you will never be able to make a comeback, but Ah Wei, what I want to tell you is that Dou Jiande is by no means as incompetent as recorded in history, in my opinion, she is really unlucky, in his previous life, he met Li Er, and in this life he came to you again, it would be strange if he wanted not to lose......
Li Chengzong laughed, "Ah Rong, I'm also thinking, it is said that those who win the hearts of the people win the world, then Dou Jiande has the reputation of a virtuous king, and Dou Jiande's strength is in the tiger prison of the former time and space, and he lost a good situation......... But I still have to ask, why it wasn't Li Er who lost in the Battle of Tiger Prison Pass, but Dou Jiande?"
Just like Li Chengzong said, Dou Jiande is indeed a good person, he lives a simple life, even after establishing the regime and becoming king, he does not wear brocade clothes, eats brown rice, and eats vegetarian food. It's not lustful, once someone else becomes the king, the first job is to recruit beauties to expand the harem, what about Dou Jiande, defeat an opponent who is the king, and immediately send all the captured palace maids home, so that they can reunite with their families. He is not greedy for money, and after every war, he distributes the property to the generals, and does not want a penny for himself......
The most commendable thing is Dou Jiande's compassion for the common people, never killing people easily, so the heroes from all over the world have come to vote, and the Dou army has quickly become bigger.
He also has a lot of affection for the common people, and after the establishment of the Xia Kingdom, he persuaded Ke Nongsang, Bo Fu lightly, recuperated with the people, and had strict military discipline. Although it was a chaotic era at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the territory of Xia was peaceful, there were no robbers, the people lived a stable life, and merchants dared to camp in the wild.
In Yongnian County, Hebei Province, there is also a village called Borrowing Horse Village, the name of the village comes from a good deed of Dou Jiande: one day he went to the north of the city to pay a private visit to the Chrysanthemum Village, and saw that the common people and a family of old and young people pulled the plow, and when the war horse was borrowed to the farmer to plough the field, the Chrysanthemum Village was renamed Borrowing Horse Village.
Yes, why did Dou Jiande fail in the end?
In this time and space, after Li Chengzong's Han State defeated Dou Jiande, he collapsed, and he no longer had the ability to recover his strength in Hebei and accumulate strength, so after Li Tang sent troops to Luoyang City, Wang Shichong did not ask for help like Dou Jiande, who lived in Hebei, Li Chengzong, who was a traitor to Li Tang and the family, finally came to the fore and replaced the role originally played by Dou Jiande.
Now that the Han State and the Han army have done a good job of rescuing Wang Shichong, well, and finally realizing the battle plan proposed by Li Chengzong to occupy the magpie's nest, then why Dou Jiande was defeated in the original time and space, and why he lost to Li Er, that is a must to be figured out.
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