Chapter 216: Shanxi Chaos
Song Jingang saw that the Jiangnan Army's 6.7 million troops were living in the east of Luoyang, and he didn't know whether the Jiangnan Army was going to attack Shanxi or Hebei first. Now Song Jingang was really a little impatient to wait, and saw that Li Shimin's attack on Liu Wuzhou was very fierce, so he withdrew his troops from the south, intending to lead 50,000 troops to attack Li Shimin.
Li Shimin had long known that in order to prevent the Jiangnan army from entering Shanxi, Liu Wuzhou arranged Song Jingang's 50,000 troops in the south to guard against the Jiangnan army.
Li Shimin was cautious with his troops, and he was very worried about the unfavorable state of forming a north-south attack, so he asked his brother Li Yuanba to lead an army of 10,000 to guard against Song Jingang.
Before Song Jingang withdrew his troops from the south and walked to Jinyang, he ran into Li Yuanba, who had been waiting in the south of Jinyang for a long time.
Song Jingang had 50,000 troops in his hands, and he bullied Li Yuanba for having a small army, so he didn't say a word and waved a large army to cover up the killing.
Li Yuanba was also unambiguous, and took the lead in killing Song Jingang's army.
At the beginning of the melee between the two armies, Song Jingang's army did have the advantage, but Li Yuanba took the lead and bravely rushed forward to the ground to boost morale, and even withstood the offensive of Song Jingang's 50,000 troops. Later, the sad Song Jingang was targeted by Li Yuanba and smashed his head with a hammer.
This time it was broken, as soon as Song Jingang died, the army under his command was leaderless, and was killed by Li Yuanba for a while, scattered and fled, and the 50,000 army disappeared in an instant, and disappeared.
After defeating Song Jingang and capturing some soldiers, Li Yuanba swung his army north and attacked Liu Wuzhou with his brother.
A Li Shimin let Liu Wuzhou Alexander, plus Li Yuanba, a fierce general, and nearly 20,000 fresh troops, Liu Wuzhou really couldn't bear it, and led the army to retreat north to Yanmen County while fighting, and almost returned to the place where the army started.
Okay. Where did you come from, Liu Wu turned around and returned to the same place.
At this time, Liu Wuzhou still had the ability to fight. At least 40,000 troops remained. Li Shimin knows the truth of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, and of course he can't let Liu Wuzhou make a comeback.
Li Shimin chased and fought fiercely along the way. Trapped Liu Wuzhou in Yanmen.
As for the Jiangnan Army behind him, Li Shimin can't take care of it now. Of course, he didn't expect that Jiangnan Lu Chang would destroy Gula, sweep Guanzhong and Hebei in one go, and now he has begun to march into Shanxi one after another.
The current information cannot be as fast as that of later generations, and Li Shimin has just learned that his father Li Yuan has been wiped out by Xue Rengao.
This information was delivered by Li Shimin's cronies who stayed in Daxingcheng and escaped from Daxingcheng, and the road from Guanzhong to Shanxi did not seem to be far. But you also have to trek through mountains and rivers.
As for the situation in Hebei, it will probably take ten and a half days and a half before Li Shimin can find out. At that time, I didn't know if he Li Shimin was there?
Li Shimin commanded 80,000 troops and stormed Yanmen Pass day and night.
At this time, Li Shimin was extremely cruel, and he didn't care about the life or death of the soldiers, he just needed to take Yanmen and put Liu Wuzhou to death.
When Li Shimin came to Shanxi, he only had 50,000 troops, and the more he fought, the more he fought. Liu Wuzhou has changed from an army of 100,000 at the beginning to an army of 40,000 now.
Liu Wuzhou was a little unbearable, this Li Shimin was like a madman, although Liu Wuzhou occupied a geographical advantage. can't stand Li Shimin's desperate play.
The soldiers were tired, and gradually developed a mood of war weariness.
The situation is very unfavorable, and Liu Wuzhou began to think about retreating. After thinking about it, there is only one way to retreat to the grassland. Liu Wuzhou is still in contact with them.
It was also at this time that the Jiangnan army had begun to advance into Shanxi to complete the final blow of the civil war.
The Jiangnan Army's northward advance this time, the entire strategic deployment is to form a flanking attack in three ways and advance northward, whether it is Liu Wuzhou or Li Shimin, they are the targets of the Jiangnan Army.
In addition, Zhang Yu of Liaodong also had to act at the same time, and the 200,000 army manipulated 600,000 auxiliary troops to move north to sweep the northern grassland tribes.
The auxiliary army in Zhang Yu's hands will continue to increase. The foreign captives were constantly joining the ranks of the auxiliary army after simple training, and the size of the entire auxiliary army was to reach a million this year.
Why expand so many auxiliaries? Because. At present, there is another powerful ethnic group in the steppe, and that is the Turks.
Five years of great cause. Qimin Khan died of illness, and Du Jishi succeeded to the throne, and the name was Bi Khan. and continued to marry his father's wife, Princess Yicheng, which is also a Turkic custom.
In the eleventh year of the Great Cause, when the Turks submitted to the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of Sui adopted the suggestion of the minister Pei Shiju, divided the Turkic forces, won over the brother of Shibi Khan, and designed to kill Shibi Khan's favorite minister Shi Shu Huxi, who resented Emperor Yang of Sui and severed diplomatic relations with the Sui Dynasty.
In August of the same year, Shibi Khan took advantage of Emperor Yang of Sui's northern tour and personally led hundreds of thousands of troops to surround Emperor Yang of Sui in Yanmen County.
Emperor Yang of Sui asked Shibi Khan's wife, Princess Yicheng of the Sui Dynasty for help, and Princess Yicheng sent someone to Shibi Khan to say that the northern border was in an emergency, and the Sui Dynasty reinforcements arrived in Yanmen one after another, and Shibi Khan saw that the situation had been reversed, so he could only withdraw his troops and retreat to the grassland.
Later, Shibi Khan sent troops to assist Taiyuan to stay behind Li Yuan to pacify Chang'an.
At that time, the Turkic forces were becoming stronger and stronger, dominating the steppe, and the Khitan, Murwei, Tuyuhun, Gaochang and other countries were all subjugated to the Turks, and the Central Plains separatist forces Xue Ju, Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong, Liu Wuzhou and others also submitted to Shibi Khan.
In the fourteenth year of the Great Cause, Li Yuan proclaimed himself emperor and established the Tang Dynasty.
Shibi Khan believed that he had meritorious service to the Tang Dynasty, so he was arrogant and used troops to coerce the Tang Dynasty.
In the second year, Shibi Khan, together with Liang Shidu and Liu Wuzhou, plotted to attack Taiyuan, and when he arrived in Xiazhou, he fell seriously ill and hung up.
Shibi Khan died of illness, because his son Shi Bobi was too young to succeed to the Khan's throne, and was appointed as Nibushe, living in the eastern suburbs, and Lifu set up the successor to the Khan's throne, called Luo Khan.
After Chu Luo Khan succeeded to the throne, he still married Princess Yicheng of the Sui Dynasty, who had been married to his father and brother for two generations, and sent an envoy to inform the Tang Dynasty.
Chu Luo Khan is not a big person, the original history of this time is almost hung up, next year, his younger brother Lu Bi succeeded to the throne, called Jieli Khan, still married Princess Yicheng as his wife.
This Princess Yicheng is really powerful, a father and three brothers share a woman, which is very good.
By the time of the Luo Khan or the generation of the Jieli Khan, the Turks were already very powerful, known as millions of people who controlled the strings. Although there is an element of exaggeration, it is indeed not to be underestimated.
At present, it is not possible to directly attack the Turks for the time being, firstly, because there are still several small countries on the periphery of the Turks, and secondly, the number of Zhang Yu's auxiliary troops is still somewhat poor, and it needs to continue to expand.
Therefore, this year, Zhang Yu's task is to clean up some small countries in the eastern Turkic region, including Khitan, Murwei, etc.
With the elimination of these small countries, it is certain that some prisoners will be captured, and then integrated into the auxiliary army, and the number of auxiliary troops will be expanded.
At that time, the land of Shanxi had almost solved Liu Wuzhou and Li Shimin, and Lu Chang would be able to attack the Turkic tribes on both sides. (To be continued)
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