Li Shimin said anxiously, "Father, during this time, due to the heavy wind and snow, it was difficult to transport fine grass, and the army only had half a month of grain storage. () At present, the rear grain retreat has been cut off, and our army has fallen into a critical situation. Or, fight against the water, ignore the Jianghuai army in the rear, and go straight to Yang Hui, and fight quickly. Or, while this news has not yet spread in the army and caused panic, we will quietly set up camp tonight, turn back to Jiangxian, take advantage of the new arrival of the Jianghuai army, attack it unprepared, defeat the Jianghuai army in one fell swoop, recapture the two cities of Jishan and Zhengping, and fight the grain road and retreat route with Taiyuan. ”

Li Yuan sat on the snow on the ground and sighed, "My father has seen Wang Shichong's eldest son Wang Xuanying a few times before, although it seems to be a talent, but in fact it is just gold and jade, and it is ruined. Such a person is not to be feared at all when leading troops. For the rest of the month, Wang Xuanying had been raising troops in Hanoi County. But recently, there was suddenly no movement in advance, and he suddenly opened up the Taihang Mountain Pass, and went deep into Jiangjun in one fell swoop, cutting off my way back. This trick is very vicious, and the timing is good, because my father doesn't believe that Wang Xuan should have this kind of ability, and he can grasp it so well. Wei's father suspected that Wang Shichong had arrived in Jiangjun and took over the command of the Jianghuai Army, and Wei's father also suspected that this time the Jianghuai Army entered Jiangjun, and it must have been more than the 20,000 horses that originally entered Hanoi County. Wang Shichong is not good! ”

As soon as he heard that it might be Wang Shichong himself who cut off their way back, Li Shimin's face completely darkened.

In the last Taiyuan dispute, the Li family played Wang Shichong once, first allied with the Wang family and defeated the Guanzhong army and Yang Junjun together, but in the end, they immediately aimed the spearhead at Wang Shichong. However, Wang Shichong was very cunning that time, and he was prepared for it, and sent a stand-in into Taiyuan City, but he stayed in the barracks.

That time, the Li family only killed one of Wang Shichong's stand-ins, Li Shimin entered the Jianghuai army camp, and was ambushed by Wang Shichong, suffering a lot of losses. Now that he heard that Wang Shichong was in person and cut off his retreat, a trace of panic had flashed in his heart.

"If you can't retreat, then go in! Father, don't hesitate any longer, let's cross the river! "Li Shimin didn't want to sit still.

Li Yuan waved his hand, still the same sentence as before, "The time has not yet come, we still have to wait." ”

"Father, we can't wait any longer, the wolf and the tiger, if we wait any longer, we will be eaten without even bones." He vaguely guessed that his father might still be waiting for news from Liu Wenjing. But Liu Wenjing has been on the grassland for so long, if the matter is done, then there should have been news a long time ago. But so far, there has been neither good news nor bad news, and Liu Wenjing and the other envoys who sent to the grassland seem to have disappeared from the world all of a sudden, and there is no news at all.

Li Yuan still shook his head, this time the southward movement was related to the success or failure of Li Tang.

If the army is defeated, then the Li family will no longer be able to make a comeback, the entire Hedong will not be protected, and the Li family will inevitably perish.

Li Yuan has always been calm, and he will never gamble on things that he is not sure of.

Crossing rivers to fight has always been a very dangerous thing. Especially now they are still facing the four famous generals of the Great Sui Dynasty, Yu Juluo, Tu Wanxu, Yang Yichen, and Pei Renji.

Planning and then acting, this is Li Yuan's style of acting.

He was waiting, he wanted to wait until Yang Jian couldn't hold his breath and crossed the river to attack first. At that time, he refused to fight against the water, and the soldiers and horses were superior, and he would have at least a fifty percent chance of victory.

And let him cross the river on his own initiative, first, because he could not find enough boats to cross the river in a hurry, and second, when crossing the river, he would be very vulnerable to attack, and the probability of failure would be greatly increased. In history, there have been countless examples of battles in which the side with more soldiers and horses failed when crossing the river to attack the side with fewer soldiers and horses. …,

Moreover, he is still waiting, he is waiting for news from Liu Wenjing.

For the allied Turks, he always had great expectations. Suddenly the cavalry was strong, he knew it very well. If you can form an alliance with the Turks, you can not only use the Turkic army to enhance your own strength, but more importantly, you can borrow the momentum of the Turks. Even if Liu Wenjing only borrowed 51,000 Turkic soldiers in the end, the effect would be huge.

The Turkic soldiers were delayed, but Wang Shichong was killed in the back, and Li Yuan was still unwilling to cross the river immediately.

He is still waiting, waiting for the Fen River to freeze, as long as the ice on the Fen River is thick enough, then the dangerous Fen water will become a smooth road. At that time, he no longer has to worry about being attacked by Yang Jun, he can completely rely on his superior soldiers and horses to directly attack Yang Jun.

Li Yuan didn't just want to defeat Yang Yong, what he needed was to completely defeat Yang Yong and not give Yang Yong a chance to gain a foothold in Hedong. If he wants to enter the customs, then he must grab at least one of the two major ferries in the east of the river, Pusaka and Fenglingdu. If Yang Jun could not be defeated in a burst, and finally let Yang Jun retreat into Pusaka City, or occupy Fenglingdu, then the Li family would be the real trouble.

Li Shimin listened quietly to his father's analysis, and couldn't help but suddenly become enlightened.

It turned out that my father was not passively avoiding war, but he had already known everything in his chest.

Li Yuan said calmly, "Da Lang, Erlang, we can give up Feng Lingdu, but Pu Han, we are determined to win." Crossing the river from Pusaka, has gone out of the west of Tongguan, can go straight to Chang'an, and the status of Tongguan is greatly reduced. Therefore, the predecessors said: "The danger of Yongzhou is in Huayue, and the meeting with the Yellow River lies in Tongguan, but there must be Wan and Luo in the southeast, and Jin and Jiang in the northeast, and then it can be solid." The risk of Wuwan, Luo Zewuguan, and Cuihan can be entered; There is no Jin, and the resistance of Jin can be entered. This is the obstacle of the Jin Dynasty that is Pujin Pass, so although Tongguan is known as natural insurance, but if there is no control of the "side door" of Puban, then natural insurance can not be said to be insurance. Although Yu Wenhua and Chen Bing are tens of thousands of towns in Tongguan, Yu Wenhua is just a handicap, with low eyes and low skills, and no ability. As long as we can defeat Yang Jun and successfully capture Pu Han, although Guanzhong is dangerous, we can drive straight in. ”

"Although Pu Han has a pontoon bridge to Guanzhong, but on the other side of the bank, Yu Wenshu sent troops to guard it, Pujin, Zhongjun, Xiguan, two cities and one pass to guard Pujin, I am afraid that we will defeat Yang Jun and capture Pu Han, and I am afraid that we will not be able to attack Pujin for a while."

Li Yuan laughed a few times, and whispered to Li Shimin with a smile on his face, "The biggest reason why my father agreed to give up Hedong and go to Guanzhong was that my father felt that Guanzhong was desirable at that time. If it weren't for Yang Jun's halfway kill, I'm afraid that our father would have been standing in the Taiji Palace in Daxing City by now. Tell you a secret for my father, the general of Guanzhong who guards the two cities of Pujin, Zhongtong and Xiguan is none other than a friend of your father and I made in my early years, Jin Xiaomo, a martial artist. Back then, my father had a great kindness to Jin Xiaomo, and I have been in correspondence with him since then, but few people know about it. At the beginning of Jinyang's army, I had already sent someone to contact Jin Xiaomo with a handwritten letter, and he also said that when my army arrived, he would offer two passes to attach. Therefore, as long as we can take Kasuma, we can easily enter the pass. The so-called Tongguan natural risk, but we can bypass it. ”

It was the first time Li Shimin heard his father talk about this matter, and he couldn't help but get excited. With this access channel that can be entered at any time, what is there to be afraid of entering the customs? glanced at his father, and he knew a little more about his father. If it weren't for his urgency today, I'm afraid that my father wouldn't have told him such a secret at all.

"Erlang, these things just mentioned are not allowed to be told to the lieutenant general for the time being, and they must be kept strictly confidential. Do you understand? Li Yuan said solemnly.

Li Shimin nodded, "The child knows, it's just that there is only half a month's food left in the army, and Wang Shichong has cut off the back road of our army, so we still need to prepare early." Otherwise, in case Wang Shichong and Yang Jian attacked our army on both sides, I was afraid that it would be difficult to resist at that time. ”…,

Li Yuan pondered for a while, frowned and said, "This really has to be guarded against, even if Wang Shichong doesn't join forces with Yang Yun." At that time, as long as Wang Shichong appears behind us, I am afraid that the morale of the army will also be greatly affected, and if it is not done well, it will collapse. Recently, the weather has been cold, although there are many soldiers who have suffered frostbite, but such a cold weather has also accelerated the freezing of Fenshui. At the moment, we still have half a month's military rations, but according to my observations, it is estimated that there will be four or five days at most, and the ice on the Fenshui River will be completely enough for the army to cross smoothly. ”

"At the moment, there is no news from the Turks, and I want to wait a few more days. Therefore, my father decided that after seven days, no matter whether the Turks on the steppe were willing to borrow troops or not, we would launch an attack on Yang Jun, defeat Yang Jun in a battle, and then take advantage of the situation to capture Pu Han and enter Guanzhong. ”

"Erlang, you lead the 20,000 horses of the right army of the headquarters to the north to camp at the Jishan Pass, and strictly prevent Wang Shichong's Jianghuai army from going south to Longmen."

Li Shimin nodded, "Father, but please rest assured, the child will never let Wang Shichong take a step beyond Jishan." ”

On the New Year's Day of the first year of the Republic, Hedong is located at the junction of Linfen and Jiangxian County, and the Taiping Pass at the intersection of Qiaoshan and Fenshui is the second dangerous pass of Taiyuan to the south, except for Huoyi. To the south of this pass, the southeastern counties of the river must pass through the north.

In the snowflakes falling from the sky, the critical pass of Taiping Pass was full of dead corpses, and beacons were everywhere. On the snowy battlefield, there were post-war wolves everywhere, and broken knives and guns were scattered on the snow, reflecting the miserable white light of the snow.

Wang Shichong rode a war horse, accompanied by his eldest son Wang Xuanying and many other generals, and slowly entered the city from the south gate of Taiping Pass, which had just been taken.

A herald on a horseback flew in to report the victory.

"Report to King Zheng, the north and south gates of Taiping Pass have been taken!"

"Report to King Zheng, the military camp of the Li Tang Hedong Army in the city has been captured!"

"Report to King Zheng, the granary in the city has been captured, and the Hedong army tried to set fire to the warehouse, but it has been extinguished by us, and all the grain has been saved."

"Report to King Zheng, all the defeated troops of the Hedong Army have been surrounded in the armory north of the city, and they are still resisting stubbornly."

"Report to King Zheng, the soldiers of the Fuyuan battalion have broken through the armory, and the last 1,000 Hedong troops who did not surrender have been wiped out."

Along the way, one after another good news kept coming, looking at the corpses of the Hedong Army all the way by the horse's hooves, the piles of human and horse corpses, Wang Shichong's heart was full of a high-spirited feeling of a conqueror. The sturdy Hedong is dangerously closed at my feet, this is my Hedong! Li Yuan reneged on their covenant at the beginning, and what happened to him behind his back, what belonged to him, he wanted to take it back after all.

Everywhere he went, the Jianghuai soldiers who had won the bloody victory raised their weapons and cheered at him: "King Zheng is mighty, long live King Zheng!" ”

The group was in high spirits, fast horses, trampling on ice and snow, splashing snow in all directions, and falling like hailstorms.

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