Chapter 186: Gao Kai is defeated

Genius 3 seconds to remember the website of this site [Pen Maze Pavilion .] The one who opposed Chu Liang was Hao Ming, the Wei Weiqing of Western Qin, who stepped forward quickly and said: "Your Majesty should not ask this kind of thing!" Chu Liang's words are extremely ridiculous! In the past, Gaozu of the Han Dynasty fled and failed many times, and Liu Bei, the ancestor of the Shu Han Dynasty, repeatedly lost his wife and son, but they all completed the imperial business in the end. ”

After Xue Ju heard this, he also regretted his words, "I'll just try you with this." So he rewarded Hao Ying and made him his advisor.

Hao Ming's strategic vision was among the top in the entire Western Qin forces, and after he became Xue Ju's advisor, he persuaded Xue Ju to join the Liang division to support him, and bribe the Turks to win his horses, unite all forces, and work together to force Chang'an.

Xue Ju adopted Xue Ju's Hao Ying's strategy and planned for several months, and then launched an attack on Li Tang with Liang Shidu and others.

However, in Xue Ju's original plan, there should be Turkic people who attacked Tang with him at this time, but there were four or five people he sent to envoy the Turks, but only one person came back at this time, and the rest of the people only came back with one head.

In order to further covet the Central Plains, Shibi Khan set up a tooth tent with his two younger brothers, Du and Mo Hedu, to the north of Wuyuan County (the county is Jiuyuan, one hundred miles west of the right wing rear banner of Ordos), and the place where Xue Ju's envoys went.

At first, Du and Mo Helu had agreed to Xue Ju's request to attack Tang with him, but at that time, Li Yin had already begun to take and go north from Chang'an, and then sent Liu Wenjing to the Turkic tent, bribed him heavily, and stated the interests to him to stop him from sending troops.

Liu Wenjing has a friendship with Du, and he gives more bribes than Xue Ju, and at this time there are rumors that Shibi Khan's health seems to be much worse recently, according to the Turkic inheritance law, as the younger brother of Shibi Khan, he also has the right to inherit the Khan, so he is not willing to waste his strength at this time, so he agreed to Liu Wenjing's request and killed most of Xue Ju's envoys.

Liu Wenjing also followed Li Yin's instructions and asked Xuan to let Zhang Changxun, the Taishou of Wuyuan County, enter the Tang Dynasty and return the land of Wuyuan County to the Han people. (At the beginning of the Central Plains Rebellion, Zhang Changxun offered Wuyuan County to the Turks to surrender to the Turks, and Shibi Khan accepted it and named Zhang Changxun a high-ranking Turkic official.) )

When Liu Wenjing said this request herself, she didn't have much hope. At this time, the east. The Turks are extremely strong, from Khitan and Murwei in the east to Tuyuhun and Gaochang in the west, and all countries are subservient to the Turks, claiming to control millions of strings, which is not a lie.

The Turks were so strong, how could they give up the land of the Five Plains to Li Tang?

He said that he could not make the decision on this matter, and that he had to send someone to ask Shibi Khan for instructions. However, what neither Du nor Liu Wenjing expected was that the people sent by Du to ask for instructions had not gone far, and Shibi Khan's close retainer, Gulu Terler, had already taken his men and horses to the vicinity, and then said to Liu Wenjing that he could represent Shibi Khan and return the land of Wuyuan to the Han people.

Liu Wenjing was surprised when she heard this, and a thought came to her heart: The Turks are so soft, is it true that Shibi Khan has little time?

After that, Gu Luteler and Zhang Changxun went to Chang'an together, and Li Yuan entertained them in the Taiji Palace, and with the highest etiquette, he played nine pieces of music for them, such as banquet music, Qing Shang, and Xiliang.

In this way, although Xue Ju and Li Tang's forces did not hand over, because of Li Yin's "foresight" and Liu Wenjing's means, Li Tang won the victory first on the battlefield of diplomacy.

Lingzhou, that is, the former Lingwu County, Li Yin at the beginning, the title of Lingwu Gong, the fief was here. Li Tang founded the country, and the county was a state, so Lingwu County became Lingzhou.

Lingzhou is also the Ningxia region of later generations, located in the Hetao Plain, which has the reputation of "plugging the south of the Yangtze River", with many fertile fields and rich products, so Liang Shidu will covet this place so much, and every time he sends troops, he wants to capture Lingzhou.

Lingzhou is far away, Li Yin wants to attack Liang Shidu, but he does not plan to go far to Lingzhou, he led his troops all the way north to Yanzhou (that is, the former Yan'an County), and met with Li Jing, the governor of Yanzhou stationed here, and then joined forces in one place, and continued to be straight to Shuofang County, the old nest of Liang Shidu.

What Li Yin adopted was the method of encircling Wei to save Zhao, unless Liang Shi didn't want his lair, otherwise he would definitely return to the army to rescue, which would save Li Yin from going all the way to fight with him.

The Liang division only had 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers, and it was not difficult for Li Yin to defeat them, so what Li Yin was more concerned about was the battle between Xue Ju and Li Shimin.

After Xue Ju's army came out of Longshan, he sent his general Zhong Juqiu to join the Qiang people, plundered Hanzhong, and personally led the army to Jingzhou (Anding County, Sui, the seat of governance is Anding City, now north of Jingchuan County, Gansu).

On 17 June, Xue Ju led a large army to cross the cities of Jingzhou without fighting, and drove directly to Chang'an with more than 100,000 soldiers and horses.

At this time, Li Shimin had already taken command of the west, garrisoned in Gaocheng (now north of Changwu County, Shaanxi), deepened the trenches, heightened the barriers, and planned to defend first to frustrate the spirit of Xue Ju's army, slowly find the enemy's weak points, and then confront it.

On the 18th, Xue Ju's army besieged Gaocheng and sent people to fight under the city, but Li Shimin ignored it and resolutely refused to fight with it.

After the two sides confronted each other for more than ten days, Sima Yin Kaishan of the Right Marshal's Mansion reported a piece of news to Li Shimin with a somewhat panicked expression: their grain transport team from Chang'an was robbed by the rangers of Beixue Ju!

When Li Shimin heard the news, he was shocked.

The last time Xue Ju fought with Li Shimin, after a long confrontation, because the logistics were somewhat difficult to supply, so that the army's morale was unstable, and Li Shimin seized the fighter plane and defeated it in one fell swoop.

And this time, Xue Ju came to attack again, adopted the strategy of the strategist Hao Ming, sent cavalry to plunder everywhere with the military camp as the center, and let the crown prince Xue Rengao personally command the most elite 6,000 elite cavalry in Western Qin, spare Gaocheng, rob the Tang army's grain transportation team, take the enemy's funds, and feed the war with war!

The Longyou region is rich in war horses, and Zhuge Liang came out of Qishan during the Three Kingdoms, mainly to seize the horse source of Longyou, so in Xue Ju's army, there was no shortage of cavalry, and Li Shimin couldn't stop the looting everywhere.

If this continues, the Tang army will definitely be trapped in this high city.

After thinking about it again and again, Li Shimin decided to take the initiative to attack and fight with Xue Jujun, so on June 21, he lined up in the southwest of Gaocheng, but Xue Jujun seemed to have expected that Li Shimin would lead his troops out of the city, and before the army formation was launched, Xue Ju secretly led his troops to attack the back of the Tang army.

On the 22nd, the two sides fought again in the shallow water plain (now northeast of Changwu), the eight Tang governors were defeated, five or six tenths of the soldiers died, the generals Murong Luo and Li Anyuan were killed, Wang Junkuo was defeated and took Qishan, and the Tang army was defeated.

Li Shimin finally fled back to Chang'an with a small number of men and horses, Xue Ju conquered Gaocheng, packed up the corpses of Tang soldiers and built a high platform, Chang'an shook, people's hearts floated, Li Yuan was also a little panicked, and people hurriedly ordered Li Yin, the king of Jin, to return to Chang'an.