Chapter 35 Angry Troops
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A rain of living people really plunged Taiji Palace into boundless fear, and the young Jin King Li Zhi escaped because he was in the palace, but he was also frightened. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Li Shimin was even more violent, although he heard the rumor that the prince was going to rebel against the palace, he never thought that he had committed such a big crime, and he was miserably divided into corpses and sprinkled with blood in the Taiji Palace. Li Shimin wandered in the brightly lit Wude Palace, and the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Li Ji and others bowed down and stood in the hall with sad faces. After a long time, Li Shimin said: "Tell me everything, who ordered the night attack on the tomb?" It's not good to kill anyone, but you killed the eldest princess? ”。
The eldest grandson Wuji flashed out and said: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten that this order was personally given by Your Majesty to Chai Shao, the general of Zuojin Wuwei, and he once ordered those who did not obey to be killed." He also sent the samurai of the Toei Sanmen to assist."
"Your Majesty's ministers have investigated, and General Chai Shao was secretly assassinated by the warriors of Dongying Mountain Gate after entering the Mausoleum, and the eldest princess was blamed for killing General Chai," Du Ruhui replied.
The most hateful and ghostly examination of the star ship pointed to where Sun Mi Huaxia Army would give them this opportunity, almost all the cavalry of the whole army were dispatched to cover all the way, and the soldiers did not carry out Ouyang Xuan's order not to accept prisoners, and before there was huge national hatred, they chose mercy. But the soldiers of the Yuan Yulin Army didn't care about those, and when they were about to kill the killer, Ouyang Xuan's order not to kill the prisoners without permission came. In the stability and conquer the Sanshui Pass south to stabilize the single Xiongxin army unity, the total strength reached 1.3 million, Xian Yushun appointed Shan Xiongxin as the military governor of the Guanzhong, leading the soldiers and horses east into Chang'an.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's too late, after the night attack on Xianling, these mountain gate warriors have been collectively killed by Shangshan, a total of more than 3,000 people, all of whom died of a fatal blow from the Huaxia knife. Its leader, Shigeru Yamaguchi, was killed in a terrible state," Li Jing replied.
"Your Majesty is more than that, today Hongling is in a hurry to make an urgent report, the Chinese million troops out of Tianshui Pass, the people and horses are like smoke, and they are gathering with Tang Pass, presumably they can enter tomorrow, the 200,000 Tang troops originally sent to Tianshui Pass have just arrived in Chencang, I am afraid that they will become ghosts under the sword in China tomorrow." Li Ji, who had not spoken, said.
"An army of millions, ridiculous, but a bluff. How can you assemble an army of a million in one day? Ridiculous", the eldest grandson Wuji said sarcastically.
"At the beginning, I also had this idea, but now it seems that everything is true, and Huaxia is indeed as the merchant said, so powerful that it cannot be more powerful. I underestimated the Holy Emperor of China and underestimated that country. I have not mobilized troops for a long time, and the soldiers have declined, I have always believed this sentence, and now it seems to be all a lie."
"Your Majesty's ministers have investigated, and General Chai Shao was secretly assassinated by the warriors of Dongying Mountain Gate after entering the Mausoleum, and the eldest princess killed General Chai", Du Ruhui replied.
Du Ruhui replied loudly: "Your Majesty must not, the minister has been to China, where the population is forty times that of the Tang Dynasty, three million soldiers, there are drills in peacetime, there are tens of thousands of warriors, standing tens of millions of prepared soldiers, extremely loyal to the Holy Emperor of China, now if the Holy Emperor orders to avenge the queen, I am afraid that there are tens of millions of soldiers and horses, and there is an instant to reach the time and space gate of thousands of miles, Huaxia communication is extremely developed, thousands of miles away can also communicate with each other, and it is not impossible to transfer tens of millions of troops in one day. I am afraid that Lingnan, Jiaozhou, Beidi, Bohai and other places have heavy troops to invade the territory, but the road is far away, and Hongling's urgent envoy is still on the road, and he has not yet arrived in Chang'an. The only way to do this is to send an envoy to ask and say that the death of the empress was done by the warriors of Dongying Mountain Gate, and it has nothing to do with the Tang Dynasty.
"Du Shangshu's words are wrong, the people outside the country, do not respect Confucianism, how can they be loyal? It's just a bluff, and the capital may not be moved, even if the army of millions is real, it is just a blow to the people and the grass is defeated, ridiculous, there is a technique in the world that is thousands of miles away, and the subordinates should not believe it, and those who have this skill should be demons, and everyone will be punished", the eldest grandson Wuji still said with that kind of mockery.
"Your Majesty should be true in this matter, when your ministers negotiate, often change the location, today is still on the shore of the sea and lake, and after the door is the snow-capped southern exotic, the sun is in the north. His Majesty saw it with his own eyes, and it would not be wrong, and His Majesty's old life was preserved thanks to the Chinese businessmen." Du Ruhui said worriedly.
"That's it, I have also heard about this matter, and I have heard about it, Yuanjia, and Lingkui, but it is true, it is not witchcraft, but our knowledge is shallow. Proposed edict: Appointed Du Ruhui, the secretary of the Ministry of War, as my plenipotentiary representative, and negotiated peace with Huaxia Yan, and sent people from Shangshu Province and Zhongshu Province to form a delegation to leave for Huaxia immediately. Du Shangshu stayed, and the rest retreated." "Minister's decree, long live my emperor, long live!" , the others exited the main hall amid the sound of the court.
Mrs. Ke Qiu Di Qi Ji Gang Yu pointed out, "Your Majesty this matter is true, when your subordinates negotiate, often change the location, today is still on the seaside lake, after the door is the snow-capped southern exotic, the sun in the north." His Majesty saw it with his own eyes, and it would not be wrong, and His Majesty's old life was preserved thanks to the Chinese businessmen." Du Ruhui said worriedly.
"Du Shangshu has a great stake in this matter, it is all a matter of one person, and the jade seal of the Central Plains is still in the hands of the Holy Emperor of China, and this negotiation can be done."
"Your Majesty should live up to your mission, but the stakes are important, please send Shangshu and Xuanling as the deputy envoy, and Yu Chen will take care of it." "Quasi-playing, coming, intended".
The Huaxia army would not wait for negotiations, Tianshui Pass collapsed under the fierce artillery bombardment, and the million-strong army drove straight in, and Chen Cang was broken in less than an hour. The 200,000 Tang troops retreated fifty miles in winter and lined up to meet each other. Although Ouyang Xuan ordered the use of cold weapons, when attacking the city, it was completely in accordance with the combination of cold and heat, shelling the city gates, especially portable rocket artillery to blow up the city gates, and the rest of the artillery fire covered the city walls to cover the ground troops entering the city, which was simple and efficient.
As for the enemy array, the Huaxia Army is naturally the ancestor of the Tang Army, the 300,000 former army is split into a three-edged swallow wing array, the two wings are light cavalry, and the middle is an infantry phalanx of spears and shields led by heavy cavalry. In the face of such a formation, the Tang army set up a traditional zigzag phalanx, and as the war drums sounded, the two sides moved in opposite directions. The light cavalry on both sides of the Chinese flanks took the lead in attacking, quickly outflanking the two flanks of the Tang army from both sides, and did not step forward, and cast powerful crossbows from a stone's throw away. This kind of crossbow is the standard configuration of the Chinese army, and the firing range reaches 300 paces, which is twice that of the Tang army's bow and crossbow. The light cavalry continued to harass the flanks, resulting in the Tang army had to divide the troops to strictly guard against the flank raids, behind the Tang army, the two wings of the soldiers and horses crossed again, exchanged directions, and continued to harass the flanks, and at this time the Chinese army and the Tang army had clashed, like rain of crossbow arrows in the air back and forth, in front of the heavy cavalry was obviously ineffective, light and high-strength titanium alloy double-layer armor effectively defended against the blow of the bow and crossbow. The Tang army also effectively resisted the first round of bow and crossbow exchanges by taking advantage of the advantage. Next, the heavy cavalry of the Chinese army held a spear in hand, and swung forward with the spear, knocking the horse's belly on his feet, urging the horse to speed up, although the distance was short, but the charge did not need to be too fast. The moment the front end of the blade met the enemy, it was almost the same action, bowing his head and leaning over, and in groups of three he vigorously provoked the shield in front of him, and rushed into the formation with his horse. The key to the Blade Formation is a strong striker, so every time Ouyang Xuan participates in a battle, he takes the lead. Today, the more than 1,000 soldiers of the old Yulin Army fully interpreted Ouyang Xuan's demeanor back then, stabbing left and right, combining long and short, taking care of each other, and soon rushed the Tang army camp out of a big gap, and the task of the cavalry following behind was to keep attacking the enemy soldiers who were trying to surround them. The light cavalry on both flanks was still harassing, pinning down the enemy and not taking the initiative to engage the enemy. As the infantry phalanx began to engage the enemy, the light cavalry changed their tactics, starting from harassment and gradually approaching the enemy phalanx, and only after making sure that the enemy's bows and arrows were attracted, they only attacked the front infantry phalanx. This repetition completely consumed the will of the Tang army, and the battle array gradually dispersed, and gradually retreated under the pressure of the strong army. The light cavalry on both flanks quickly withdrew to the rear of the enemy camp and repeatedly harassed the Tang army's already dispersed rear army, giving them hope of escape, but not giving them a chance to escape. As the hoplite cavalry passed through the formation, a team divided into two teams with the flank cavalry rushed into the formation again, at this time the Tang army was powerless to return to the sky, the main general was killed, the deputy general was killed, and there were not many surviving captains left, and the remaining more than 100,000 Tang troops chose to rout to the east. The whole battle ended in just one morning. Ouyang Xuan had calmed down a lot when he received the battle report, and ordered those who surrendered to disperse without the royal family, and those who surrendered to the officials and those who were not from the royal family temporarily managed the place according to their original positions.
Where will the Huaxia army give them this opportunity, almost all the cavalry of the army went out to cover up all the way, and the soldiers did not carry out Ouyang Xuan's order not to accept prisoners, and before there was huge national hatred, they chose mercy. But the soldiers of the Yuan Yulin Army didn't care about those, and when they were about to kill the killer, Ouyang Xuan's order not to kill the prisoners without permission came. In the stability and conquer the Sanshui Pass south to stabilize the single Xiongxin army unity, the total strength reached 1.3 million, Xian Yushun appointed Shan Xiongxin as the military governor of the Guanzhong, leading the soldiers and horses east into Chang'an.
"Your Majesty this matter is true, when your subordinates negotiate, often change the location, today is still on the shore of the sea and lake, after the door is the snow-capped southern exotic, the sun is in the north. His Majesty saw it with his own eyes, and it would not be wrong, and His Majesty's old life was preserved thanks to the Chinese businessmen." Du Ruhui said worriedly.
Li Shimin, who was in Chang'an, was later than Ouyang Xuan when he received the war report, and more than two hours had passed since the battle, which made Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji and others really shocked in a cold sweat. Almost overnight, the vast grasslands and deserts in the north were captured by the Chinese, pointing to the border of the Great Wall.
Because of the deliberate delay of the eldest grandson Wuji, Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling just left Chang'an City in the morning, if it weren't for the border emergency report confirming what Du Ruhui said, I'm afraid I don't know how long it will be delayed. The eldest grandson Wuji, who was at a loss for a while, came up with an idea to capture the Chinese merchants in Chang'an and Xianyang City and the head of the city, block the westward advance of the army, and move the capital to Luoyang at the same time. Li Shimin, who is helpless, can only choose this. But when the people sent out to arrest the Chinese merchants returned empty-handed, Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Wuji suddenly fell into a panic. It took only two days from the night attack on Xianling to the army's capture of Tianshui Pass, and there was no trace of the Chinese businessmen under house arrest, which shows the speed of the means.
With the issuance of the edict to move the capital, the entire Chang'an City fell into panic again, and the Guanlong magnates rushed to Hangu Pass with their family and belongings, crowding the originally spacious official roads, sometimes fast and sometimes slow. As soon as Li Shimin and his courtiers' carriages left Chang'an fifty miles, they were blocked in the middle of the road and could not move. As a last resort, he used Zuo Qianniu's guards and horses to beat and scold the road, and hurried forward while it was still early.
Du Ruhui and the others met the Huaxia army in Wugong County in the afternoon, and Shan Xiongxin listened to the intention and reported the situation to Ouyang Xuan. At this time, Ouyang Xuan was preparing to take the Ninth Division to intercept and kill Li Shimin at the Zhongnanshan base, and received the envoy sent by the Tang Emperor for peace talks, and the etiquette of battlefield exchanges still had to be talked about, so he ordered someone to take the negotiation delegation to Kyoto by helicopter, and the current Prime Minister Hua Ying and Ouyang Xuan's plenipotentiary representative Peng Fei, the General Administration of the General Staff of the Army, the chairman of the Senate, Wang Dai, the prime minister, Ma Zhou, and the minister of rites, Gong Liangying, formed a special envoy for peace talks to negotiate with him in the Palace of the Sacred Palace in Kyoto. As for the content of the negotiations, Ouyang Xuan only demanded that Li Shimin and the nobles of the court kneel in front of Li Shuning's coffin to bow three times and bow nine times, issue an edict to the guilty, and kill the mastermind Sun Wuji, otherwise the master will be replaced and the Tang State will be re-established. The reason why Ouyang Xuan chose the negotiation location in Kyoto was to delay time and let the army take the Tang Dynasty, and he had other plans in his heart.
But he never thought that Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were very smart, and as soon as they entered China, they hired two Tang businessmen, bought a communicator, and one of them took advantage of the war to smuggle back to Tang and sent it to Li Shimin by a special person, and transmitted the real-time voice of the negotiation to Li Shimin's ears in time.
Xingyuan Qiu is the most lonely place where the Huaxia army will give them this opportunity, almost all the cavalry of the whole army went out to cover all the way, and the soldiers did not carry out Ouyang Xuan's order not to accept prisoners, and before there was huge national hatred, they chose mercy. But the soldiers of the Yuan Yulin Army didn't care about those, and when they were about to kill the killer, Ouyang Xuan's order not to kill the prisoners without permission came. In the stability and conquer the Sanshui Pass south to stabilize the single Xiongxin army unity, the total strength reached 1.3 million, Xian Yushun appointed Shan Xiongxin as the military governor of the Guanzhong, leading the soldiers and horses east into Chang'an.
Ouyang Xuan gave up the plan to intercept and kill Li Shimin, after all, there are still negotiations over there, and this side can't do too much, and ordered the soldiers and horses to move forward slowly to reduce the pressure on logistics supply, after all, this is a full-scale hasty war, and the logistics deployment mechanism is also in a hurry, food, clothing, weapons, tents, bows and crossbows are consumed, etc., all need an effective mechanism, although the General Administration of the Army has a mature response mechanism and has dealt with such a situation, but there will inevitably be chaos for a while in such a hurry, Because it is a cold-weapon operation, at least food and weapons are not a problem, and it can ensure the smooth operation in the initial stage, and as the war deepens and the body is lengthened, there must be a process of adjustment in logistics. This process will take several days, and if a short-term threat operation is acceptable, this kind of long-term operation must have sufficient logistical support, and the busiest thing in China at present is the air transport brigade directly under the General Administration of the Army. The logistics of the military horses entering Guanzhong are easier to handle, and they are directly provided by the Zhongnanshan base. The Penglai base in Jiaodong is responsible for the logistics of the Eastern Route Army, the navy is in charge of the navy supply ships, the Guizhou base is responsible for part of the Southern Route Army, and the transportation brigade of the General Staff Department is responsible for the rest. Because it was Ouyang Xuan who funded the battle, the Shaofu continuously sent the grain, ordnance, horses, and vehicles that had been hoarded for many years to the border from the warehouses in various places and handed them over to the General Administration of the Army for deployment. The war is about logistics, which Ouyang Xuan knows very well, so there are three sets of logistics support systems in China, one is for the General Administration of the Army, one is for the Shaofu, and the other is the Yulin Army Reserve and the logistics division directly under it. Whenever there is a war, they can cooperate with each other and complement each other to form an efficient logistics system. Conventional armies can complete the transportation and deployment of materials in one day of single-point or multi-point operations, while all-people operations take three to five days. This time, however, it is an all-people war, and it will be very troublesome to advance too quickly and decouple from the logistics system that is not yet perfect, and if it is based on local materials, it will increase the anger of the people in the occupied areas. In order not to disturb the people, he could only postpone the march, and at the same time give Li Shimin a face in diplomatic etiquette.