Chapter 149 Winning without victory

Who is Yuanwendu? A veteran of the Sui Dynasty, he was the first to serve as the right attendant sergeant of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, Yuan Wen was awarded the internal history of the people, and successively served as Cao Lang of the Treasury Department, Cao Lang of the Examination of Gong, Shangshu Zuocheng, and Taifu Shaoqing, who were skilled in government affairs and quite famous.

After Yang Guang ascended the throne, he became Si Nong Shaoqing, Si Li Doctor, and soon was promoted to Imperial Doctor. In the rebellion to quell Yang Xuangan, Yuan Wen had a good appearance, which was affirmed by the Sui Emperor Yang Guang.

In July of the twelfth year of the Great Cause, on the eve of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty going to Jiangdu, he issued an edict ordering Yuan Wendu and Guanglu Doctor Duan Da, Inspector (Acting Meaning) Shangshu Weijin of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Huangfu Wuyi, the Right Wuwei General Huangfu Wuyi, and Lu Chu of the Right Shilang to assist Yang Tong, the king of Yue, and guard the eastern capital. Among all the people, Yuan Wendu is the oldest and has become the natural big brother.

Since partnering with Yang Tong, the king of Yue, Yuan Wendu has completely pinned his future on Yang Dong.

Yuan Wendu has always felt that he is Yang Dong's most favored courtier, and he is the dry city of the empire.

But all the beautiful visions of Yuan Wendu have now become illusory and full of variables because of the arrival of one person, and this person is Wang Shichong.

Since the first day Wang Shichong arrived in Luoyang, Yang Tong has shown him extraordinary respect and trust, and even Wang Shichong has lost three battles in a row, Yang Tong can not be held accountable. It has to be said that the appearance of Wang Shichong posed a serious threat to the status and power of Yuan Wendu.

Therefore, Yuan Wendu's exclusion of Wang Shichong has never stopped.

This time was no exception, Yuan Wendu was very angry after listening to Wang Shichong's words. Because, the inducement of Li Mi was actually proposed by him, and now Wang Shichong's denial of Li Mi is clearly denying his policy.

But as a master of infighting in the court, Yuan Wendu still knows how to restrain personal feelings, and he pretends to appease Wang Shichong.

Of course, Wang Shichong is not a stupid person, and he has long known that Yuan Wendu has bad intentions towards him. But on the surface, it's not easy to tear your face, so you pretend to be friendly.

These two people are harmonious on the surface, but in fact, they are murderous inside.

Early July. The Emperor sent a letter to Li Mi, saying: "I don't care about those things in the past. As for the future, we must treat each other sincerely. The world's major events also need your help. Conquest power. I'll leave it all to Your Excellency. ”

Li Mi was overjoyed to receive the letter, and from then on, he devoted all his energy and troops to dealing with Yu Wenhua.

The trick taken by Luoyang to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf, to use Li Mi to deal with Yu Wenhua, only needs to pay for the forgiveness of Li Mi's sins and a large number of official rewards, which can be described as a benefit but not a fee.

Generally speaking, it is okay to take this kind of means to fool the small gangs and small forces who are making small troubles, but if you want to fool Li Mi, a special thief whose strength is so big that he can almost be called the emperor, it is actually not tempting at all, so obvious "snipe and clam fighting." The trick of "Fisherman Profit" should be obvious to Li Mi at a glance, and then refuse in one bite.

Li Mi and Yu Wenhua are also anti-thieves, Li Mi actually accepted Luoyang's recruitment, and returned to follow Yu Wenhua and fight to the death.

Luoyang has Luoyang's calculations, and Li Mi also has his calculations. Competing for hegemony in the world, each exerting his skills and calculating with each other, didn't Lu Chang just finish calculating Li Zitong and Du Fuwei?

Yang Tong, the emperor of Luoyang, used the strategy of driving away the tiger and devouring the wolf, which was similar to Lu Chang's methods, although the means were insidious, they were also clear at a glance.

With Li Mi's intelligence, this little trick is pediatric. See it at a glance. Everyone has their own abilities to see who can calculate in place.

The problem is that Lu Chang has an absolute superiority in troops, even if he doesn't count Li Zitong and Du Fuwei, he will win the battle in the end. Lu Chang just wanted to reduce his losses. It's just a matter of speeding up the pace of war.

But when it comes to Li Mi, the result is difficult to say.

In addition to worrying about being attacked in the abdomen and back, Li Mi didn't want Luoyang to stab him in the back, another reason was that Li Mi despised the Kyoto Gentleman Yu culture very much. This is probably Li Mi's final calculation.

At this time, Li Mi had been carried away by the past victories and began to become arrogant. He didn't take Yu Wenhua and his eyes at all.

Li Mi's strategy is to stabilize Luoyang behind him first, and face Yu Wenhua alone.

He thinks that it is easy to clean up Yu Wenhua and. Then to settle Luoyang, it can be said that Li Mi has never regarded Yu Wenhua as an enemy with the same strength as him.

This can be clearly seen from the entire battle process between Li Mi and Yu Wenhua.

Li Mi is also from the gate valve, and has been in the Western Capital for a long time, so he can be said to have a thorough understanding of Yu culture and a good man. Li Mi doesn't take Yu Wenhua in his eyes, and there is indeed some truth in it, and Yu Wenhua is indeed very stupid.

Yu Wenhua and their family's surname is Po Yetou, who first became a servant in the Xianbei tribe, and after the sinicization of the Xianbei tribe, he changed his surname to Yuwen with his master.

His grandfather Yu Wensheng was awarded the title of Shangzhu State during the Northern Zhou Dynasty because of his military exploits. It's even worse when it comes to his father, his father is Yuwenshu, who was deeply used during the Northern Zhou Dynasty and was named the Duke of Puyang County. When Emperor Wen of Sui established Sui, he followed Wei Xiaokuan and made many military exploits, and was named Shangzhu State, and entered the title of Duke of Baoguo.

During the confrontation in Qishui, Li Mi once scolded Yu Wenhua and said: "You were originally just a slave of the Huns, and your father, brother and son were all graced by the Sui, and they were rich for several generations, and there was no second family in the Manchu Dynasty." The Lord has lost his virtue, and you can't persuade him with death, but instead seek to rebel and kill the king, and you want to spy on and usurp the world. You don't follow the loyalty of Zhuge Liang's son Zhuge Zhanshu who died and died, but you follow Huo Guang's son Huo Yu to rebel, which is not tolerated by heaven and earth, what are you going to do? If you hurry up to me, you can save your heir! ”

Li Mi scolded Yu Wenhua and his words were ruthless enough, and the humiliation was thorough enough.

Hearing this, Yu Wenhua must have been very depressed, one of the world's number one anti-thieves scolded another anti-thief for being disloyal to the court, but instead wanted to act rebelliously, and said it so justifiably, quoting scriptures, this is simply a non-mainstream classic.

If the psychological tolerance of the people present was a little worse, it is estimated that they would be able to vomit at that time.

Therefore, Yu Wenhua was immediately stunned by Li Mi's brazen words, his jaw was about to fall, and he couldn't say a word for a long time, it was too shocking!

Yu culture and what can be said?

In the end, Yu Wenhua finally held back a sentence: "If you want to fight, you can fight, what nonsense!" ”

As soon as these words came out, they were ridiculed by Li Mi again. He smiled at the people around him: "Yu Wenhua and this fool still want to be the emperor, see how I whip him with a stick!" ”

was so humiliated by Li Mi. Yu Wenhua and of course went crazy with anger.

As a result, Yu Wenhua began to build siege equipment on a large scale to attack Liyang Cangcheng, and Xu Shiji dug a deep ditch outside the city to defend it. Yuwen's army was blocked by a trench and could not reach the city.

Xu Shiji secretly dug a tunnel in the ditch, and then suddenly attacked Yuwen's army, defeated Yuwenhua and burned his siege equipment.

Li Mi not only won the fight, but also defeated Yu Culture by a small amount. I despise this play pants more and more.

At the same time, after accepting the canonization of Luoyang, he was exempted from the threat of double-front warfare, and was able to transfer a large number of Wagang elites on the western front to the eastern front to deal with Yu Wenhua. After the elite of Wagang was transferred, Li Mi did not take Yu Wenhua even more seriously.

He knew that Yu Culture and the lack of food, so he wrote a letter to Yu Culture and deliberately asked Yu Culture and for peace, and said that he would provide food to Yu Culture and .

Yu Wenhua received Li Mi's handwritten letter, and after reading it, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, Yu Wenhua and stupidly really believed Li Mi. Ouch. It's no wonder that Li Mi despises him.

From the bottom of his heart, Yu Wenhua really didn't expect that Li Mi, the Duke of Wei, would take the initiative to make peace. This is something that is impossible to happen in the eyes of Yu Wenhua. But now, the black and white letters prove that the impossible has happened.

Yu Wenhua exhaled deeply, and the stone-like oppression that had been pressing on his chest for many days disappeared in an instant.

From the bottom of his heart, Yu Wenhua was really afraid of going to war with Li Mi, because he was too unconfident, not because he was worried that his army would not be able to defeat Li Mi's Wagang army, but because his army had little food and grass left.

Now that everyone has made peace, the other party also provides grain and grass, and the problem has been solved.

Yu Wenhua is much worse than his father Yu Wenshu. Although Yuwenshu's character is not good, he is also a famous general of the Great Sui generation, and Yu Wenhua and in addition to his poor character, his ability is even worse.

More than 80,000 troops returned to the west. He didn't bring much food, and relied exclusively on robbing the common people, obviously he was an official soldier, but he had to go through the mode of rogue warfare.

Here's the question, are you dumbfounded now?

Fortunately, Li Mi wanted to make peace with him, and Yu Wenhua hurriedly agreed. For fear that Li Mi would regret it.

Originally, in order to save food, Yu Wenhua took measures to restrict soldiers from eating food. Although it can't solve the problem fundamentally, after all, it's okay for a while.

Now that there is no war, Yu Wenhua will no longer restrict everyone from eating food. In today's terms, what a real person!

If it weren't for the defection of a Wagang soldier to his side, Yu Wenhua and I'm afraid that he would not have seen through Li Mi's conspiracy until he died.

In fact, Li Mi had long found out that Yu Wenhua and his military rations were running out.

In order to dispel Yu Wenhuaji's concerns and let Xiaoguojun eat food with confidence, Li Micai pretended to propose peace, and very readily agreed to send him food.

Silly, Yu Wenhua and really fooled. As a result, what little food was left was quickly swept away by the hungry soldiers.

If you want to say that the clay figurines still have three points of earthiness! How can it be humiliating and deceitful to be so repeated? Knowing this news, you can imagine what kind of state Yu Wenhua was in at that time...... Probably going to go berserk......

Yu Wenhua and really angry! At this time, his army rations were eaten again, and the 80,000 Xiaoguo army had been put to death.

So, Yu Wenhua and in a fit of rage, he simply made a desperate bet and crossed the Yongji Canal with the whole army, wanting to fight with Li Mi.

The two armies fought at the foot of Tong Mountain. On one side is the well-equipped and well-trained Xiaoguo Army, and on the other side is the Wagang Army that is rampant all over the world and famous in a hundred battles, which is destined to become a vicious battle in the Battle of Tongshan.

This was a decisive battle, Yu Wenhua and commanded the whole army to cross the Yongji Canal, and Li Mi fought a terrible battle at the foot of Tongshan Mountain, from seven or eight o'clock in the morning to six or seven o'clock in the evening.

The Wagang Army is essentially a peasant army, and its equipment is inferior to that of the Xiaoguo Army, so it is inferior to the officers and soldiers in frontal combat.

And Li Mi's housekeeping kung fu is to fight ambushes and knock on stuffy sticks instead of fighting head-on, so the Wagang army has repeatedly suffered losses when fighting Wang Shichong head-on, and it has to rely on other tricks to get it back. What's more, now in the face of Yu Wenhua and the Xiaoguo in his hands, they are all the elite of the Sui army selected by thousands of people, and their combat effectiveness is even better than that of Luoyang's officers and soldiers.

Li Mi looked down on Yu Wenhua, and even ignored Xiaoguo's combat effectiveness to the extreme, so he gave up the previous defensive tactics of deep ditches and high bases, and actually took over Yu Wenhuaji's challenge and fought a hard-fought field battle.

Although this Yu Wenhua is a complete fool, but his subordinates are all arrogant soldiers, this battle made the Wagang army taste the bitterness, under the strong blow of the Yuwen army, the Wagang elite suffered heavy casualties.

Even Li Mi himself was hit again by an arrow from outside the sky, he had this experience before, and this time it was even more powerful, and he fell directly under the horse unconscious.

After Li Mi fell, his relatives on the left and right actually ran away, only Qin Shubao, a kind man, bravely killed and scattered the pursuers, always guarding Li Mi, and then gathered the rout, turned back to fight with Yu Wenhua and force, and barely stopped the offensive of Yu Wenhua and the army.

The reason why this situation occurred in this war was that in addition to the ferocity and abnormality of Xiaoguo, Li Mi had a lot to do with the treatment of his own people.

After Li Mi got rid of Zhai Rang, Wagang was the one he said, so he began to put on a leadership posture for the people below.

At that time, the Wagang army was not short of food and grass, but there was nothing else but food, and Li Mi did not seem to have a plan for how to distribute the property after the army seized it, so there was often no material reward for meritorious soldiers.

In dealing with the problem of the new and the old, the new ones are generously rewarded, but the old subordinates are a little neglected, and the uneven rewards and punishments will naturally cause dissatisfaction among everyone.

After Xu Shiji expressed his dissatisfaction in public, Li Mi did not wake up, but kicked Xu Shiji directly to Liyang to guard the granary, squeezing him out of the core of the Wagang army.

Li Mi's cronies around him will naturally fly separately when the disaster comes, if it weren't for Qin Shubao's kindness, Li Mi would have died. In fact, this battle has already been lost. The essence of the battle to the death is "if you don't die, I will die".

After a day of hard fighting, although the Wagang army was very wolf, it finally resisted the attack of the Xiaoguo army. Yu Wenhua and no food to eat, can no longer fight. Of course, if there is food to eat, Wagangzhai will be unlucky next, and it must be crippled by the Xiaoguo army. Therefore, there was a strange scene in the Battle of Tongshan, the Wagang army was considered to be victorious without victory, or it was defeated but victorious. And Yuwenjun is victorious but not victorious, undefeated and defeated.

Yu Wenhua and this hammer deal failed to completely defeat Li Mi, and the next fate can be imagined, his side will collapse without food, and this army will come to an end, and it will soon face disintegration.

But at this critical moment, a new crisis appeared behind him. (To be continued.) )