After hearing these words, Yang Jian realized that if you didn't say such things, it would almost be a big deal.

So, Yang Jian's first thought was that Shao Nei Shi Cui Zhongfang.

Cui Zhongfang (A.D.), the characters are uneven, Han nationality, Boling Anping (Hebei County>

First of all, he is Yang Jian's classmate, and during his classmate, the two were very good, which is the same as that Liu Fangkai and Zheng shareholders, the difference is that he did not join Liu Fangkai and their company.

Secondly, Cui is a civil and military all-rounder, and a loyal person. In his early years, he followed the "dragon slayer" Yuwen Hu, starting from the staff cadres of the army, concurrently serving as a secretary, and later promoted to the department and bureau level cadres of the Ministry of Justice, participating in the revision and formulation of national laws, and also dedicated to Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to destroy the Qi policy.

Prior to this, in order to participate in the election of prime minister, Yang Jian also pulled this classmate Cui into the group of relatives and friends, and the two reached an agreement in a cordial and friendly atmosphere and shook hands to show that they had formed an alliance.

However, when he was in charge of the army, Cui Zhongfang did not agree, saying that his father Cui Xuanyou was in Shandong in the enemy's territory at this time, and this reason was difficult to refuse.

But this classmate Cui is a person who has helped Yang Jian a lot.

After Yang Jian found him, he offered Yang Jian "Eighteen Cheap Things" overnight, and Yang Jian appreciated it very much and adopted it.

One of the most important is the establishment of the official system of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, which proposes to "follow the old Han and Wei dynasties", which provides a basic plan for the construction of the political institutions of the later Sui Dynasty.

Classmate Cui couldn't help in this matter, there was no way, Yang Jian still had to call Liu Fang and Zheng Yi.

Although he did not immediately answer their request for officials, the two of them, after all, were the team behind him to choose the prime minister and the emperor in the next step.

And these two knew that it was Li Delin who came up with the idea.

It was this man who blocked their official road, and he also blocked the road to wealth.

Of course, there must be an attitude, so Liu Fangkai said, I am not a general, and it is difficult to convince the public.

In fact, this statement has been reversed a bit, if this person is a general, I am afraid it will be difficult to convince everyone.

And the other one on the side, Zheng Shareholder immediately took the opportunity to say, my mother is sick and can't go.

The reasons of these two people did seem too pediatric, so Yang Jian was unhappy because of this, which should make Liu and Zheng regret it afterwards.

In fact, if they did it, it would be very good.

It is precisely because of their reluctance that another big man is left with an opportunity.

The second big man is Gao Gong.

Gao Gong (541-607 AD), the name Zhaoxuan, Bohai Worm (now East >, Jingxian County, Hebei Province).

However, he only became a big man in the Sui Dynasty.

At this time, Gao Gong was only the secretary of the Prime Minister's Office, and the secretary of the General Office of the Minister of the State Council, he was him.

At this time, he stood up and asked to serve as a prisoner, a difficult task.

Yang Jian didn't pay much attention to this person in the past.

In other words, I still noticed it, otherwise I wouldn't have served as the important position of secretary next to the prime minister.

Gao Gong stood up and asked to take on this important responsibility, which made Yang Jian's eyes light up, and now he realized why he didn't think of this person first.

Before this, Yang Jian had sent his agent, Yang Hui, the Duke of Hanguo who was canvassing votes, to find this Gao Gong.

This Gao Gong's father is called Gao Bin, who was an official in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and was rushed to the Northern Zhou Dynasty because of the slander of the villains.

At that time, the great Sima of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, who was not only a famous general, but also Dugu Xin, a famous beautiful man in ancient China, took him in as a staff member and gave him the surname Dugu.

And Dugu Xin was given poisoned wine by Yuwen Protector and forced to commit suicide at home, and his family was sent to Sichuan.

Dugu Xin's seventh daughter, the later Lady Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of Sui, and the Empress of Literature, because Gao Bin was an old subordinate of her father Dugu Xin, the two families often corresponded.

Gao Bin later went to Yanzhou (now Jingmen City, Hubei Province) to assassinate the history, and after Gao Gong was developed, Gao Bin was also posthumously presented as the Book of Rites and the Duke of Bohai.

This is because Yang Jian and Gao Gong both belonged to the Dugu Xinzheng Group at that time, so Yang Jian has a historical relationship with Gao Gong as a cronie.

Gao Gong was very smart when he was a teenager, and reading books was also "slightly involved", that is, only looking at a rough idea, this kind of person who did not understand the reading of people, at that time, everyone was considered to have a future interest, and this smart man was also very good at words, which should be placed today, is a piece of material for being a lawyer.

When Gao Gong was a child, there was a willow tree in his yard, which was 100 feet high, like a lid, and the old man in the village said: "This family should be a nobleman."

And it came to pass.

This shows that afforestation is still very important.

When Gao Gong was seventeen years old, he was admitted as the secretary of the palace by Wang Yu Wenxian of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Later, when Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he received a hereditary title and became the earl of Wuyang County (now Tewei County, Sichuan Province).

Later, he became a sergeant in the history of the Interior, and soon moved to a doctor. In the battle of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to destroy Qi, he had military exploits, so he was later allowed to open the mansion to recruit troops and establish the Gao family's government soldiers.

That is, not long ago, Jihu (from the Southern Xiongnu, who lived in present-day Shanxi Province during the Northern and Southern Dynasties) rebelled in Xizhou (present-day Xi County, Shanxi Province), and Gao Gong followed the Yue Wang Yu Wensheng to conquer and quell the rebellion.

These above situations are another reason why Yang Jian asked his agent Yang Hui to find Gao Gong to join in.

But this can only be said to be a concern, and it has not yet reached the level of considerable attention.

Needless to say, because heroes know heroes, as soon as the canvasser Yang Hui opened, this Gao Gong immediately expressed his agreement to join Yang Jianzheng's gang with a very happy look.

His statement is: Even if the "official business" fails, that is to say, if the coup fails, I am not afraid of being exterminated.

This is really like spitting and smashing a pit, enough iron.

Because of this process, the request was approved, so Secretary Gao immediately set off to supervise the army, and only sent someone to ask his mother to leave.

This is in stark contrast to the attitudes of Liu and Zheng.

As a result, Gao Gong later became a big man, and it was not Liu and Zheng's turn to open a house.

It is precisely because of the above episode that the army of the commander Chi Hui has been summoned, and then these things have been tossed, and by the time the time the battle is started, more than a month has passed.

At the end of July, because the troops of the Seven Commanders had not yet completed the assembly, Wei Xiaokuan led some people to set out from Luoyang and occupied Heyang (now south of Mengzhou City, Henan).

3. Main attack

At this time, Li Jun, the general of Wei Chi Yuan, was besieging Huaizhou (Zhiye Wang, now Qinyang City, Henan Province).

And the reason why General Wei Mingjun rushed to Heyang first was because someone gave him advice, thinking that Luoyang, as Kyoto in history, had always been lacking in city defense, and it all relied on fortification in Heyang to protect it.

This place is an important military town, for a long time, there are a lot of Xianbei people from the eastern part of the country, living here, these people are some people who are soldiers and wars as a profession, if Wei Chi Yu occupies it first, it will be a big disaster, so Wei Xiaokuan led some of the people first, to protect Heyang first.

At that time, there were more than 800 Xianbei people in the defenders of Heyang City, but their homes were all in Yecheng, seeing that Wei Xiaokuan brought not many people and horses, and Wei Chi Hui opposed Yang Jian, so he made a lot of movement.

General Wei Mingming is a person who has a special preference for "knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent." Before going to war, the first thing to do well is reconnaissance, and what needs to be done well in peacetime is espionage work. So I know the movements of this group of people well.

Therefore, I had a strange plan, and the specific method was to send someone to Luoyang, Tokyo first, and create a fake lawsuit.

This Luoyang was the administrative and judicial capital of the Northern Zhou Dynasty at that time, and the six prefectures, namely Tsukazai (State Council), Situ (Ministry of Households, that is, the Ministry of Personnel and Land), Zongbo (Ministry of Rites, that is, the Ministry of Culture, and the State Ethnic Affairs Commission), Sima (the department in charge of the logistics and training of the army, and as the highest military court), Sikou (the Criminal Department, the Supervision Yuan, in charge of the criminal prison, picketing), and Sikong (the Ministry of Industry, that is, the Ministry of Construction and Water Resources) are all set up here.

So from the court in Luoyang, as well as the State Council, a notice came, and it was rumored that the main persons in charge of this group of Xianbei people were called to Luoyang City to accept the reward of the official.

This kind of unexpected surprise, think about it carefully, is a little reluctant, but if it is really a good thing, it should not be let go, it is a big deal to take a trip, and this Luoyang is not too far, only more than 100 miles away, and the fast horse can be reached on the same day.

The lawsuit was presumably made into a criminal case.

And the facts of the case may have been fabricated: the report of the attempted rebellion, after trial, proved that these summoned people were innocent and loyal to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, so they were allowed to stay in office and give rewards. Such benefits made them all stay.

The main persons in charge of the Xianbei people all value profit over friends, and forget the brothers who are still living a hard life in Heyang City, so everyone can only disperse, and the plan that was originally said to take refuge in Wei Chi Yuan was declared bankrupt.

This small move of General Wei was a big thing, not only because he occupied Heyang City without discussion, but also won time, and waited for the soldiers of the Seven Commanders to arrive.

Next, Commander-in-Chief Wei began to give command, ordered all departments, divided troops to attack, and quickly swept away several chaotic troops who were taking advantage of the chaos in the vicinity.

Then, the conquest army converged and marched eastward, coming to the southeast of Yongqiao Town (present-day southwest of Wuzhi, Henan).

Wei Ming will analyze the current situation from a strategic perspective, believing that it is still necessary to pay attention to the war, and only by striving to annihilate the enemy's main force can the task be completed, so he decided not to attack Heyang City first, but to bypass this fortified city and directly attack the old nest of Yu Chi Yuan.

However, when the army advanced to Wuzhi (west of present-day Wuzhi County, Henan Province), it had to be stationed.

Because there was a big river in front of him, blocking the way.

The river is called Qinshui (southeastern Shanxi Province, a tributary of the Yellow River).

And at this time, Wei Chi Hui had already sent his son Wei Chi Xin, led an army of 100,000, rushed to Wude (now southeast of Wuzhi, Henan), and set up a formation on the east bank of Qinshui for more than 20 miles.

At this time, the water swelled, and the two armies had to confront each other across the water.

It seems that it was all because of this river, and not because anyone in the Seven Governors had accepted Wei Chi's salary and deliberately delayed the attack.

On the day, Gao Gong reached the front line.

The senior supervisor army was in a hurry. However, the delay caused by the toss before this has nothing to do with him.

He can only do what he can now.

The high superintendent army ordered to build a bridge.

The order is amazing.

Because of the turbulent rapids of the water, it is difficult to do it now.

Bridging is to prepare for an attack.

Of course, this is needless to say, the important thing about this move is that our family is playing a desperate posture.

The bridge was erected.

When the captain of the cliff saw this, he asked the soldiers to lower the fire raft from the upstream and try to burn the bridge.

The high gong allows people to build underwater obstacles "earth dogs" far away from the bridge piles to prevent the fire raft from approaching the bridge.

This "earth dog" is made of bamboo cages and sacks, filled with sand and gravel, reinforced with wooden stakes, and the top is exposed to the water, so as to block boats and rafts that go down the river. Because this thing is sharp and high in the front, wide and low in the back, and the shape is like a sitting dog, it is called "earth dog", which is a kind of military weapon for water warfare invented at that time.

Is it possible to use this "earth dog" on a rapids river?

The hypothetical answer is that the bridge building method at that time may have been completed by forming a cofferdam with "earth dogs", then driving wooden piles, and then constructing the frame surface.

In fact, this is also a common method used in barrage and dam building. It is the same as the construction of the Three Gorges Dam that we have seen on TV, which is also the construction of sections in the cofferdam after the diversion of the river.

And this lieutenant is late, he can't make a plan, and he has another plan.

Under the so-called urgency, the plan starts from the heart, and this is all forced by the new senior supervisor:

He withdrew his army to the people on the other side of the cliff, out of sight, thinking that as soon as the other party came ashore, he would immediately cover up and kill him, and the other party would fight against the water, and he would be panicked, and if he got it right, he could force the other party to jump into the river.

Fighting against the water is a taboo for soldiers.

This kind of tactics that is supposed to put the opponent in a Jedi is actually a double-edged sword.

There are two famous examples of battles with opposite results: Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, and Han Xin's backwater formation.

The former is a victory that goes ashore from the water, and the latter is also a victory that is not driven into the water and stands on the shore.

The premise is that as long as you don't implement water, you win.

But this technique of fighting a war really depends on who is using it and on whom it is used.

For the famous general Wei Xiaokuan, he saw the flaws of the other party:

First of all, the person who came, not Wei Chiyu.

It's his son, who hasn't fought any big battles.

Wei Chi Hui probably remembered the saying that father and son soldiers were needed to go into battle, so he led 100,000 horses to come.

However, it is a question of people, not numbers, that is important in fighting a war.

The second is that the distance that this lieutenant retreated from now gives an opportunity.

The relationship between the distance required by the other party and the time to cross the river here is not fixed.

Crossing the river can be accelerated, and when you meet on a narrow road, it depends on who is faster.

Moreover, when the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, it depends on morale.

So Wei Ming will order the drums to be beaten, this is to be fast, faster; It's also for the excitement before the fight, moving forward, moving forward >

And this Gao Gong set a fire after the whole army was killed.

It burned the bridge.

These two people have two moves, one yang and one yin, what they have to do is to learn from the overlord of Chu and Han Xin, so that the majority of soldiers know that if they run back, it will be too late to repair the bridge.

General Wei Ming, rushing forward, regardless of life or death, this is very fatal.

I don't know if the captain is really "sluggish" in front of the instantaneous change of the battle situation, and the "dullness" of the business trip for one or two seconds.

However, the vast number of soldiers in the Wei Chi Xin army knew that there was a vast world behind them anyway, and they could run.

The former, may die; To the latter, it will be said that it is an escape.

Then of course choose to run away, so that the fool does not turn backwards >

Hundreds of thousands of people on both sides gathered together to fight, so many people, one side will be defeated no matter how it says, and it is so fast.

This is actually not much different from a duel between two people: two people compete for victory or defeat, which is actually determined by their own will. There is also the question of whether there is a mistake in judging the will of the person standing opposite.

I want to win against the other and I can win against the other, and if the two judgments are correct, then I have won.

The ensuing killing is as if the verdict has been issued, and the rest is just to enter the enforcement procedure.

Wei Chi Xi fled to Yecheng (southwest of present-day Linzhang, Hebei) on his own.

Wei Xiaokuan's army took advantage of the victory to pursue, as if entering the execution procedure.

Wei and Gao didn't have much trouble to hit Yecheng, just like they were about to seize each other's property and prepare for auction.

However, although Wei Chi Hui may have thought about what kind of verdict there would be, he refused to accept the verdict and opposed enforcement, so he concentrated all his troops of 130,000 troops and lined up in the south of the city to prepare for a decisive battle.

Waiting in array shows that we have already made spiritual and material preparations.

Wei Chi Qin, the younger brother of Wei Chi Yuan, commanded an army of 50,000 people, and was rushing from Qingzhou to reinforce Wei Chi Yuan, and personally led 3,000 cavalry to arrive in advance.

Wei Chi Yuan is an old professional soldier, with decades of military career, and fighting is the only serious thing he has to do in his life and life, so he will not be afraid of these people who come to enforce it.

Most of his soldiers are from Guanzhong.

Although most of these soldiers are Han Chinese, they are a new type of military system, that is, the elite soldiers of the world established by the government military system.

One of the reasons why the government military system was superior to the outdated ethnic minority tribal military system was that at that time, mainly in the Guanzhong area, the middle and upper households with the household class (the household class was demarcated according to the level of population assets as the basis for taxation) were conscripted above the sixth class, and those who had more than three sons in the middle and upper households had to choose the physically strong ones as the government soldiers.

Especially after the defeat in the Second Battle of Bishan in 543 AD, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Yong, ordered to vigorously recruit Guan Long Haoyou, that is, the children of the wealthy clans to join the army, so that the Han people became the main source of government soldiers.

When he became a government soldier, he was exempted from all his own military service, separated from the general household registration, and joined the independent household registration of the government soldiers. In the middle of each month, half a month of vigilance patrols, and half a month of exercises. Moreover, you can make a fortune by virtue of military merit promotion, and in the martial period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, this is the main way to enter the office. In other words, being a soldier is the most promising job because someone is in charge of food and does not work, so this profession is very sought-after.

The advantages of this military system can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the army, which is what we now call military technology specialization.

It is needless to say who will have the upper hand when a peasant who has been temporarily conscripted and who is accustomed to hoeing in peacetime fights with a professional soldier who dances with knives and guns all day long.

Of course, there is also the advantage that these government soldiers are the soldiers of Lord Wei Chi's mansion, and most of them are determined by Lord Wei Chi Hui's personal future.

And the people in the Guanzhong area, fighting has become a daily routine in their lives, which is different from the soldiers in other places.

Therefore, it is not surprising that these Guanzhong people are willing to fight for Wei Chi's manpower.

Not only that, Wei Chi Hui also has more than 10,000 personal soldiers, all wearing green scarves and brocade jackets, known as the "Yellow Dragon Soldiers".

This is supposed to be a new type of cavalry that evolved from the heavy cavalry that was common at that time, that is, light cavalry troops. Its greatest feature is that it is mobile, flexible, and practical.

This is the family army on the Wei Chi Mansion in the true sense.

These soldiers not only did not have military service, but also had military salaries, which were paid by Lord Wei Chi. They are not in the national army, so they are all hardcore, and they only look forward to the head of the captain Chi.

You can come from the costume alone: the brocade jackets of the Yellow Dragon Soldiers are all yellow.

And the ragtag army composed of the seven governors' soldiers led by Wei Xiaokuan came from all over the world, and the colors of their clothes were really varied.

That's the difference.

is the same government soldier, in terms of the source of soldiers, compared with it, it is different. Just like we often say that students come from different sources, and there is very little room for improvement in the problems on the prime.

Comparing the two, Wei Xiaokuan will think that it is better not to fight this battle.

Because the purpose of fighting is to win, not to show off muscles, let alone to be embarrassed and conspicuous

There is also the fact that the reputation of a famous general that Wei Mingjiang has worked hard for all his life will be ruined if he doesn't get it right.

What broke this embarrassing situation was that in the formation of this famous general, there was a fierce general with excellent martial arts.

If not, it is difficult to say what the outcome of this battle would be.

I'm very interested in martial arts novels, but I always feel a little vague about the term "martial arts".

Reading some real history, excluding the romances written by the ancients, novels written by today's people, etc., you will always find that the so-called martial arts, in fact, in the real battle array, will not let a legendary character kill others, like cutting melons, and when killed by others, he is invulnerable.

If the truth is as mythical as it is, there is no way to fight.