Chapter 1227: The Tang Dynasty is unified
Li Yi said with a playful smile: "Ah, did Ziyi meet his old friend again today, and then he was dumped?" Otherwise, why is he so angry, muttering, like a deep resentful woman. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"That's not the case...... Tai Shici is an impatient, although he knows that the emperor is joking with him, but what really annoys him is the current battle situation.
This kind of procrastination not only made him unhappy, but also did not help the overall situation, but the emperor was still happy to do it, so he really couldn't figure it out.
Li Yi said to Tai Shici: "Didn't you explain this matter to you? Youdu has already led the army into Wu County, and we are here, just to cover people's eyes and ears, and to create an opportunity for Youdu to surprise Sun Quan. As long as Sun Quan is taken, the enemy army in Tianmu Mountain will naturally go down without a fight. ”
Speaking of Xie Xuan, Tai Shi Ci's other resentment was hooked up again, and he said unhappily: "Your Majesty, you shouldn't give the task of raiding Sun Quan to Brother Youdu, his art of war and strategy are better than mine, but I am still the best at fighting surprise battles." If I go, I don't need to cooperate at all, a night attack is enough to solve Sun Quan's wine bag and rice bag, why bother so much that there is no news for a long time? ”
"The risk of a night attack is too great." Li Yi smiled and said, "The night battle is difficult to control, and the Eastern Wu army is not a rabble, in case of a surprise attack, it will be bad if Sun Quan is prepared." Speaking of which, if he hadn't fallen into a desperate situation by himself, it would have been really troublesome to take down his 30,000 army and the hundreds of thousands of people he had been hostage. In addition......"
Although Tai Shici acted recklessly, he was not a person regardless of the occasion, and Li Yi knew that this person was in a hurry, purely out of concern about the battle situation.
However, there is no way to do it, the means of communication in this era are too backward, and it is not generally difficult to command soldiers and horses hundreds of miles away, and it is even more unreliable to divide and attack together.
To a large extent, the large-scale cooperation operation has to rely on the judgment of the generals themselves, and what he, the commander, can do, is only to put the right people in the right positions and draw up the overall strategy, and the rest can only depend on the performance of the generals.
Raid the Battle of Fuchun, if Tai Shici or Zhang He is the main general, the time of launch may be earlier.
Xiahou Yuan is the oldest, and Xie Xuan is the most cautious, mainly with these two generals, even if it is a surprise attack, it will be launched at a relatively safe time.
Li Yiben didn't have much interest in remote command or something, the so-called "general will not be subject to the orders of the monarch outside", and it is stupid to command it out of thin air when he is not at the scene, especially if the target is a peerless general like Xie Xuan. Li Yi believes that he will definitely get a satisfactory result.
The key to this battle is not only to defeat Sun Quan, but also to achieve some other goals.
Therefore, the best executors are not Tai Shici and Zhang He, who are good at hitting and rushing, but Xie Xuan, who is good at controlling the rhythm and grasping the scale.
In fact, just when Tai Shi Ci and Zhang He were routinely out of battle, the messenger sent by Xie Xuan before setting off had already arrived at Tianmu Mountain. Now, the battle in Fuchun should have settled down, just waiting for further news to come.
Victory is certain, the question is whether the other goals have been achieved.
"Report ......"
Li Yizheng was explaining his words, a wisp of smoke and dust suddenly appeared in the southeast, and when he looked at it, it was a fast horse that came to the dust.
Li Yi's heart moved, knowing that the news of the Battle of Fuchun had come.
The speed of the ride was very fast, and in a blink of an eye, he was approached, and a personal guard had already greeted him, checked his identity, and knew that it was his own person, so he led the messenger to Li Yi.
"Emperor Qiqi, his subordinates came from Fuchun and brought a joint letter from the three generals Xie, Xiahou, and Hao!"
"Hmm." Li Yi nodded, took the letter, and unfolded it.
As soon as he heard Fuchun, Tai Shici also knew what was going on, he didn't dare to come to Li Yi's side to read the letter, and he was impatient to wait for Li Yi to finish reading the explanation, and asked the messenger directly: "The battle has been won?" The result? ”
"General Taishi, our army has won a big victory!" Tai Shi Ci has a bold personality, it is easy to get along with the soldiers, of course this messenger knows him, and the news he brings is nothing to avoid, seeing that the emperor did not say it, he naturally can't suppress the ecstasy in his heart.
"Of the 30,000 Eastern Wu army, except for the thousands of dead and wounded, less than 1,000 people followed Sun Quan and ran away by boat, and the rest were blocked by General Xiahou's ambush soldiers, and all of them were disarmed!"
"In addition, the hundreds of thousands of people who Sun Quan was holding were all intercepted, and Sun Quan did not take any of them."
20,000 troops were dispatched and more than 20,000 prisoners were captured, which is not a brilliant record. The greater success is the hundreds of thousands of people who were coerced by Sun Quan, this is the emperor's greatest wish, and now his wish has been fulfilled, Sun Quan has not taken any of them, it is simply a perfect realization of the emperor's wish, no wonder this messenger is so excited.
"So many captives?" Li Yi's plan, Zhang He also knew something in advance, but he was also bluffed at the moment.
According to Li Yi's plan, the 10th Army Corps that entered Wu County in this battle poured out, Xiahou Yuan led a small number of elite night raids and harassment, Xie Xuan led the main force of the 10th Army to attack, and to the west of the river bay, and then ambushed a part of the soldiers and horses to ambush them, so as to weaken the strength of the Eastern Wu Army as much as possible.
According to the messenger, the battle was a complete success, and the Eastern Wu army was almost wiped out.
"General Zhang, you don't know the situation at that time, the Eastern Wu army was harassed and didn't sleep well all night, after being defeated by General Xie, the one who ran was called a fast ......" The messenger is Xie Xuan's personal guard, the main general has made a great contribution, he was very happy, as soon as he mentioned this, he became more and more proud, and said with a fluttering eyebrow, "General Xie chased very skillfully, started very quickly, slowly slowed down, and finally suddenly stopped, those routs were already tired, and when they saw that they were out of danger, they couldn't run at that time, so they staggered and did, and then, Our ambush soldiers surrounded us from all sides, and they couldn't stand up, so what could they do if they didn't surrender? ”
"I see." Zhang He understood, this is the same as Li Yi's defeat of the Yellow Turban Army in Quanzhou and the defeat of the Xiliang Army in Luoyang that day.
Tai Shi Ci sighed regretfully and said, "Brother Young is also a hundred secrets, why did he let Sun Quan run away?" He pretended to cross the river, there must be a boat! It's not that we Datang don't have a water army, so we make some arrangements in advance, don't we block him? It is good to completely annihilate the enemy army, but it was run away by Sun Quan, which is also ...... Alas, what a failure! ”
Li Yi raised his head from the military newspaper and said with a smile: "This matter must be blamed on the young degree, I specially emphasized that I wanted him to let Sun Quan escape." ”
"Huh?" Tai Shi Ci was stunned, and the messenger was also stunned.
In this kind of war, we pay attention to capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and how many soldiers and horses the enemy destroys and how much territory they occupy cannot be regarded as a complete victory, as long as the enemy is still there, there is a possibility of a comeback. Therefore, only by capturing and killing the head of the enemy can it be regarded as a complete victory.
In the battle of Fuchun, from all angles, Xie Xuan won a big victory, and the only flaw was that he was run away by Sun Quan, but this flaw is quite critical.
The messenger has been trying to render other results, just because he was afraid that the emperor would ask about this, but as soon as Li Yi opened his mouth, he came with such a sentence.
Deliberately releasing water? What is the truth behind this?
Looking at everyone's puzzled looks, Li Yi smiled and said: "Sun Quan's kid can't run away, if he is surrounded on land, with the terrain around Fuchun, it will be easy for him to escape." But if you force it to the water, who can escape the pursuit of my Datang Navy? ”
Everyone suddenly realized that they were waiting here.
Everyone knows that the land troops of Soochow are much weaker than those of the Tang Dynasty, but they forget that even the Soochow, which is famous for its strong naval army, is much weaker than the Datang Navy.
On land, especially in the terrain around Fuchun, it is really difficult to contain Sun Quan, who is bent on running away. But if it is forced to the water, when the Tang Navy reappears, Sun Quan will really have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth.
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Wang Panyang, the Tang Dynasty Admiral Tan Daoji, commanded the warships to chase Sun Quan.
The 5,000 Jiangdong naval troops, plus more than 1,000 army infantry who fled with Sun Quan, rode more than 100 large and small ships to the east of the ocean.
Sun Quan couldn't help urging Zhou Tai and Dong Xi to let the ship speed up. Seeing Sun Quan's urging, the two had no choice but to say, "Your Majesty, our sergeants have done their best. ”
Sun Quan smacked his lips, anxious, but what to say? Did you turn your face and reprimand the two?
Fortunately, in the past few years, Sun Quan has been in the top position, and his self-cultivation and qi cultivation skills are not bad, and he said: "It's me who is anxious." ”
A soldier in charge of the lookout stood on the lookout and said loudly: "The Tang army warship is coming. ”
When Dong Xi heard this, he turned over to the lookout platform, and saw a team of warships coming on the sea in waves, and the speed of the warships was much higher than that of his own warships, and it seemed that it would not take an hour to catch up.
After discussing with Zhou Tai, Dong Xi sent thirty warships to intercept the incoming enemy, and the remaining warships went straight to Yizhou.
It turned out that the Jiangdong warships were paddling by sailors on the bottom floor, but the Tang warships were pedal rollers, and the outside of the rollers was protected by wooden planks, so that they could not be seen from the outside. The pedal rollers use the weight of the soldiers themselves, which is more than twice as labor-saving as the Jiangdong warship, and the rudder is flexible, and the ship moves freely, which is extremely convenient.
Sun Quan also saw the warship chasing by the Tang army at this time, and his face couldn't help but change greatly, the rhythm of the Tang army was endless.
Looking at Zhou Tai who came down from the lookout, Sun Quan said: "Youping, the Tang army is chasing after you, how to resist the enemy?" ”
Zhou Tai said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, let General Dong escort the first, and the Taishuai warship will block the incoming enemy." ”
Zhou Tai said, turned over and jumped off a ship, came to a warship, raised the flag of the main general, thought it was the flagship, and quietly waited for the enemy.
Tan Daoji was on the flagship lookout, and when he saw that the Jiangdong warships were separated, he guessed that Sun Quan was in the front team, and the thirty warships behind were to buy time for the front team, so he waved the order flag and let his deputy Lu Dai meet the battle, and he commanded the warships to make a detour, avoiding the fleet led by Zhou Tai, and pursuing Sun Quan.
The sea of Wang Panyang is wide, and there are only thirty warships on the opposite side, and it is easy for a large group of warships to bypass. Zhou Tai saw the Tang Army's warship detachment, and commanded his own warships to surround him desperately.
With a sneer on the corner of Tan Daoji's mouth, he ordered the drum to be beaten, and the low-level soldiers heard the drum and stepped on the roller with all their might, and the Tang army warship cleaved the waves, and soon left Zhou Tai's team behind.
Later, Lu Dai's warship had already arrived and was the first to attack. Shoot sticks, rockets, and boulders attacked fiercely, and the Jiangdong warships were suddenly dwarfed, and the thirty warships, only Zhou Tai's flagship was spared because it was in the center, and the rest of the warships were in flames and were injured to varying degrees.
The Jiangdong soldiers jumped into the water one after another to flee for their lives, and the Tang army put down their boats and captured the soldiers on the sea.
More than ten large ships surrounded Zhou Tai, and the broken Jiangdong warships wanted to rush over to protect the main general, but were stopped by the Tang warships on the periphery.
Zhou Tai didn't know what Sun Quan's situation was, and in the face of the powerful Han warships, he didn't know if he could escape?
Lu Dai faced Zhou Tai and said loudly: "Sun Quan is brutal and unjust, General Zhou Tai is willing to die for this kind of puppeteer, ignoring the righteousness, what face will he have in the future to meet the two generals Wentai and Bofu?" ”
Zhou Tai said miserably: "Although I am the general of the defeated army, how can I let you slander my lord?" ”
After that, he jumped and waved the single knife in his hand to kill Lu Dai. But he was captured by Tang soldiers with special fishing nets.
The morale of the Jiangdong soldiers was low, and at this point, there was only one way to go except surrender, that is, waiting for the Tang army to harvest their lives, the soldiers watched each other for a long time, threw their weapons into the water, and sat on the deck.
Sun Quan, who fled in front, was also quickly caught up by Tan Daoji.
Facing the Tang Navy warships with absolute speed superiority, in this vast sea, Sun Quan's ending was exactly what Li Yi said before, that is, there was no way to enter the sky and no door to the earth.
In the end, Sun Quan's warship was captured by the Tang Navy, and Sun Quan himself was captured alive.
With the capture of Sun Quan, the Tang Army's 300,000 army, plus nearly 100,000 navy, occupied all parts of Jiangdong with a sweeping momentum.
On the first day of the eighth month of the fifth year of Wude of the Tang Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Mrs. Wu, who stayed in the capital of Eastern Wu, led Lu Meng and other generals in the city to surrender, and Eastern Wu was declared extinct.
Since then, after 26 years of arduous struggle, Emperor Wude Li Yi finally replaced the Han Dynasty, reunified the divided land of China, and even expanded the land of China to the Korean Peninsula in later generations, the Asian region of Russia, and the entire Indochina Peninsula, and the land area of the Tang Dynasty expanded from more than 5 million square kilometers in the Han Dynasty to more than 16 million square kilometers, more than twice the area.
Of course, if the area near the Arctic Circle, which is not included in the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty for the time being, because there is no population living there, the territory of the Tang Dynasty will be close to 20 million square kilometers, and almost half of Asia is under the rule of the Tang Dynasty.