The confrontation between the 30,000 infantry mixed army of the Sui army and the 30,000 Tang army has entered the tenth day, although Liu Wuzhou has perished, but the battle between the Sui and Tang dynasties for the annexation of the state has not begun. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Listening to the thunder in the silent place, under the shroud of the clouds of war, the two dynasties were in full swing to carry out war deployment, the Northern Sui requisitioned 300,000 people for the first time, and continuously transported a large number of grain and grass materials to Yanmen County and Shangdang County from Zhongdu and Yi County.

The Tang army also increased 30,000 troops from Guanzhong to Taiyuan, and at the same time collected 200,000 people, and transported 200,000 stone grain and armor materials from Hedong City to Taiyuan, so that the defenders of Taiyuan City increased to 70,000.

Taiyuan is the land of the Tang Dynasty, which has a crucial impact on the stability of the Tang Dynasty, once Taiyuan is lost, it is likely to lead to the collapse of the confidence of the government and the opposition, Li Yuan knows this very well, so he has to defend Taiyuan City at any cost.

Lou Fan Pass is located in the mountains, the terrain is high and dangerous, the city is solid, it is the necessary place for Lou Fan County to go north to Yanmen County and Mayi County, it belongs to a part of the Great Wall, but it is located in a mountain pass, through which an extremely important north-south passage is formed.

Lou Fu Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack for the south, but for the north it is just an ordinary pass, the terrain is flat, the city wall is only two zhang high, it is easy to be captured, and it cannot accommodate 30,000 people at all, at most 3,000 people, most of the Tang soldiers can only be stationed outside the south pass.

However, the Sui army did not seem to be in a hurry to attack Lou Fu Pass, but built a 2,000-mu plate military camp opposite Lou Fu Pass, and 30,000 troops were stationed in this huge military camp.

In the afternoon of that day, an urgent eagle letter sent from the capital was placed on the desk of the military advisor Fang Xuanling.

This is an eagle letter written by Zhang Xuan, in which he told Fang Xuanling that the 30,000 troops sent by Chang'an had arrived in Taiyuan City, and the time was ripe to take Lou Fu Pass.

Fang Xuanling greatly admired his lord's chess strength in the world and his ability to control the rhythm of the war, he could capture Taiyuan in one fell swoop, but he didn't start, but used Taiyuan as an eye, using Li Yuan's psychology of refusing to lose Taiyuan, containing and depleting the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, in the end, Taiyuan will still fall into their hands, but this kind of clever strategy that does not lead to it is not understood by everyone.

In order to defend Taiyuan, the Tang army only continued to suck blood from the counties in southern Jin, heavy labor, heavy taxes, sooner or later will make the Tang Dynasty in the state of the people lose heart, this is like a sinking body finally exhausted the family property, or it is difficult to escape death.

Capture Lou Fu Pass, in Lou Fan County and Shangdang County before and after, forming a siege of Taiyuan, even if Li Yuan knew the strategy of the Sui army, they could only stubbornly defend it, unless they had the courage to give up Taiyuan City, but once they gave up Taiyuan, the Sui army formed a momentum of breaking bamboo, and could go all the way south to conquer the counties of southern Jin, and finally the Tang army could only watch the loss and annex the state.

Fang Xuanling pondered for a moment and then said, "Quickly invite General Pei and General Su to my tent." ”

Not long after, Pei Xingyan and Su Dingfang, the two main generals, hurried to Fang Xuanling's tent and bowed together, "See the military advisor!" ”

"You're welcome, two generals, please take a seat!"

Fang Xuanling was not the commander, but the coordinator of the two armies, but he had a high prestige in the army, and the soldiers were very convinced of him, and they also faithfully implemented his suggestions and plans.

The two sat down, Fang Xuanling took out a wooden model from the box next to him and put it on the table, Pei Xingyan and Su Dingfang both stepped forward curiously to take a closer look, and after a while, Pei Xingyan asked, "Is this Lou Fuguan?" ”

Fang Xuanling nodded, "This is what I asked a few carpenters to take ten days to make, it's not easy!" Lou Fuguan is basically like this! ”

Pei Xingyan and Su Dingfang glanced at each other, and suddenly understood what the military advisor meant, both of them were pleasantly surprised, could it be that the war was finally going to start, they had been holding back outside the Lou Fu Pass for ten days, and they were already impatient, and the hints of the military advisor made them see hope.

Fang Xuanling took out Zhang Xuan's warrant and said with a smile: "This is the order of the marshal, the Tang army has entered Taiyuan in the north, and asked us to take Lou Fu Pass." ”

"Could it be that the marshal doesn't want to take Taiyuan?" Su Wei finally reacted a little and asked cautiously.

Fang Xuanling smiled slightly, "Liu Wuzhou has restrained the Tang Army for many years, creating one opportunity after another for us, Liu Wuzhou was finally defeated, but we can also inherit Liu Wuzhou's career and continue to contain the Tang Army!" ”

Pei Xingyan didn't quite understand, and said suspiciously: "In other words, it's also the Tang Army that is holding us back!" ”

"It can be said that in the end, who will contain whom, it depends on the chess strength of both sides, when the marshal won Shangdang County and Changping County, he wanted to use the grain of these two counties to supply our army in Bingzhou, and the army does not need too much, just like fishing, a bait is enough!"

Speaking of this, Fang Xuanling waved his hand, "Let's not talk about this, let's talk about how to attack Lou Fuguan!" ”

Fang Xuanling moved the model of the city pass to the middle of the table, pointed to the city wall in the north and said: "It is much easier to attack Lou Fu from the north than from the south, I have considered two plans, one is to directly use the siege ladder to capture the city head, and the other is to attack with trebuchets, I want to ask the opinions of the two generals." ”

Su Dingfang smiled: "Do you still need to ask us this little question?" The military advisor just decides directly. ”

Because Pei Xingyan didn't have the decision to attack Taiyuan, he suddenly lost his passion in his heart, and said listlessly: "My opinion is the same, the military advisor decides!" ”

Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "Its practical trebuchet is the most labor-saving, but I think if I can use a combination of foot and cavalry to attack the city, I have no experience in this area, so I want to ask the two generals." ”

Although Pei Xingyan respected Fang Xuanling, as the saying goes, the role of the military division is to strategize, and the general is responsible for the command of the battle, especially Pei Xingyan's cavalry experience, he immediately shook his head resolutely.

"Qi Qi military division, the siege must not use cavalry, the cavalry is too large, even if the running does not stop, but it is difficult to survive under the random arrows, the role of cavalry in the siege is nothing more than to snatch the city gate or the impact after the collapse of the city wall, if the military division decides to use trebuchets, the cavalry can be ready to impact at any time."

Su Dingfang also said: "Military advisor, General Pei is right, cavalry training is not easy, and war horses are more precious, try not to make senseless sacrifices, it's a pity." ”

Since the two main generals were opposed, Fang Xuanling no longer insisted, he smiled and said: "Fortunately, I have built ten trebuchets in the past ten days, otherwise I would have been really stumped by the two generals." ”

He pointed to the city wall on the model and said: "I won't talk about the southern city wall of Lou Fu Pass, the Tang army has been unable to capture it for two months, which shows that the city wall is tall and strong, although the northern city wall is only two zhang high, but most of them are double walls, which were just repaired last year, very strong, but it is not the south city wall after all, it has weaknesses, and the weaknesses are in the northwest corner." ”

Fang Xuanling pointed to the northwest corner and said: "The inside of the city wall is a warehouse, and it can't be repaired, so the city wall is still a single wall so far, and the bearing capacity is weak, we can use trebuchets to attack the northwest corner, General Pei, I will hand over ten trebuchets to you, and you must take Lou Fu Pass for me before it gets dark tomorrow." ”

Pei Xingyan immediately bowed down and said, "Obey the order!" ”

Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "Please General Su take a step slowly, I still have something to explain." ”

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Lou Fuguan could not accommodate all the Tang army, only 3,000 Tang troops were stationed, and they confronted the Northern Sui army for ten days, and they were somewhat exhausted, but despite this, the 3,000 Tang army still had a strong fighting spirit on the city wall to prevent the sudden attack of the Sui army.

At the head of the city, Li Jiancheng looked at the Sui army camp under the cover of night, his eyes were full of unwillingness and doubt, unwilling to be unwilling to finally exterminate Liu Wuzhou after three years of hard fighting, but the two counties of Mayi and Yanmen were taken away by Zhang Xuan effortlessly, and his heart was even full of anger.

And the doubt is that he can't figure out the real intentions of the Northern Sui army, why did he confront them here for ten days without attacking, so that they seized the opportunity to increase their troops in Taiyuan, what was the intention of the Northern Sui army?

At this time, Wei Zheng slowly walked to Li Jiancheng's side and asked with concern, "Your Highness has been watching the enemy camp here since the afternoon, is there anything to worry about?" ”

Wei Zheng knew Li Jiancheng very well, and Li Jiancheng would only do this when he was worried.

Li Jiancheng sighed, "There are too many things to worry about, I really don't understand, half a month ago, there were only 3,000 defenders in Taiyuan City, and the Sui army in Shangdang County obviously had a chance to capture Taiyuan City, why did they hold their troops?" I don't believe that Jang Hyun, who has always attached great importance to intelligence, would not know about the situation in Taiyuan City. ”

"Actually, His Highness's question is on the key point." Wei Zheng also looked at the Sui army's big camp road.

Li Jiancheng was stunned, and turned back to look at Wei Zheng, "How do you say this?" ”

"Has Your Highness ever thought that Zhang Xuan actually didn't want to take Taiyuan City."

Li Jiancheng's brows furrowed, he didn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence, Wei Zheng explained: "Taiyuan is not a strategic place for Zhang Xuan, taking Taiyuan County is nothing more than sending Taishou County Cheng to govern like other counties, but Taiyuan City has a great significance to us, it is the land of Longxing in the Tang Dynasty, once it is lost, it will shake the national capital, but in this way, Taiyuan has become a burden for us, Liu Wuzhou dragged us for three years, how many resources and troops have we consumed, Forty percent of the grain in Yongtongcang is supplied to Taiyuan, if the Sui army leads Taiyuan but does not attack, how many troops and resources will we have to be held back by the Sui army? ”

Li Jiancheng was speechless for a long time, he was very shocked in his heart, he felt that Wei Zheng had seen through Zhang Xuan's layout, if this was the case, what could they do?

Wei Zheng said in a deep voice: "I think that it is necessary for His Highness to write a letter to tell the Holy Lord about the current situation, so that the Holy Lord can understand that giving up Taiyuan is not necessarily a bad thing. (To be continued.) )