Chapter 37: Intrigues
Yang Zhuo told Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen about his father Yang Wanchun's intentions, which made the two of them angry.
The situation of the gate lords in Goguryeo was more serious than that of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the Central Plains, and the major families controlled most of the military power, and they acted like local princes in their respective fiefdoms, and they were obedient to the political governance of the central government. Because of this, Gao Jianwu had the idea of "cutting the domain", and he also fought back for the important ministers of the gate valve, and lost his life first.
The original aristocracy of Goguryeo was divided into five divisions, including the Juan Nu Division, the Absolute Slave Division, the Shun Nu Division, the Guannu Division, and the Guilou Division, which were also referred to as the five major families of the Interior, East, South, North, and West according to the geographical distribution. The five largest tribes were not equal, but were divided into three ranks: the first was the Guilou tribe, where the royal family was located, the second was the Juan Nu and the Absolute Slave tribe, and the third was the Shun Nu and Bun tribes.
The Yuan family belongs to the third class of the Shunnu Department, and the status has always been only the end of the family, but because the Yuan family has emerged a stunning and brilliant Yuan Ziyou, a calm and mountain-like Yuan Binzhi, this brother took the opportunity of Yang Guangdong's expedition to control the real power of Goguryeo and encroached on the power of the Goguryeo royal family Guilou Tribe, making the Guilou Department only have political power and no military power, and also laid the cause and effect for the demise of the Guilou Tribe.
Now Goguryeo called the internal Guilou tribe almost dissipated, leaving only the four major departments of southeast, northwest, Juannu, Juannu, Shunnu, and Guannu. This time, it was ordered to lead 100,000 troops to support Anshi Castle that were the northern slave tribe Mattress Sa Gao Yanshou and the southern slave department ∟, Mattress Sa Gao Hyezhen. The so-called mattress is also the head of the family, which is equivalent to the patriarch of the family and the pillar of the family.
Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen, who were born in the family, had an instinctive rejection of Yang Wanchun, who was born in the peasants, and it was already a great shame to be ordered to accept his dispatch.
It's just that the Yuan family is now in full swing in Goguryeo. Yuangai Suwen, the young patriarch of the new mattress, is extremely ruthless and makes people's hearts palpitate. Nor shall they obey. This time when they arrived in Anshi City, Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen were full of anger.
They have a harsh environment on the Korean Peninsula. Summers are hot and rainy, winters are cold and dry, and now it is the end of summer and early autumn, and the climate is extremely unstable, with a huge temperature difference between day and night, and it is hot and humid during the day and cold at night.
At that time, the Tang army had not yet captured Baiyan City, and Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen asked Yang Wanchun to let their army enter the city to rest. The proposal to enter the city made Yang Wanchun refuse, and instead appointed them to be stationed in the garrison mountain, and they relied on each other to help each other with Anshi City. As a result, the sky is not beautiful. On the way to the garrison mountain, it rained showers, and their army of 100,000 was drenched in soup, and they suffered a lot of cold all night.
In fact, Yang Wanchun is very smart and rational in this arrangement, Anshi City is not a giant city like Liaodong, he is characterized by being small and strong. Rashly squeezing an army of 100,000 into a small city will crowd the bad things, and placing the 100,000 army in a favorable terrain can be used to wield the great army. Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen were already full of prejudices against Yang Wanchun, and when they were angry, they instinctively regarded this move as Yang Wanchun making it difficult for them.
This party has just gained a foothold in the garrison mountain. Waiting for the arrival of the Tang Dynasty's soldiers and horses, he was ordered to abandon the garrison and retreat for thirty miles.
This feeling of teasing and teasing was even more certain in the hearts of the two, and Gao Yanshou said angrily: "Ungrateful untouchables." With the help of Lord Yuanziyou, he was promoted to the nobility. Not only did he not try to repay the favor, but he opposed Lord Yuanziyou. Now they treat us like monkeys, how can they make sense? ”
Gao Huizhen was also annoyed: "I really don't know what Lord Mo Lizhi thinks. Let a pariah command us? Let's listen to a little city lord? Passed back to the ministry, what face is there to lead the people. Damn. Lao Tzu is stationed here in the mountain and does not leave. See what that pariah can do to us......"
Gao Yanshou's flowery intestines were a little more than Gao Huizhen's, and his eyes rolled and said, "No, we should listen to him." As he spoke, he took out a map of the vicinity of Anshi and gestured, "This is Anshi City, and this is the garrison mountain where we are stationed now." We are on the garrison mountain, and in order to prevent being attacked by our garrison mountain, the Tang army will definitely not dare to attack Anshi City with great fanfare. But if they retreat thirty miles, they will knock it down......" He drew an arc with his finger on the map, pointing to a point on the map, "He put our army of 100,000 behind and put himself on top." He wants to be a hero, he wants to be capable, whether he is dead or alive is his will, and it has nothing to do with us, since this is the case. Why don't we be merciful enough to fulfill him? ”
Gao Huizhen's eyes lit up, and she said with a smile: "It makes sense, we have an army of 100,000, and he can't look down on it, so he will let him have an army of 20,000 to fight it well." If he can't hold on, the Tang army will be almost as consumed by him. We have an army of 100,000 people, and we are the heroes of Goguryeo when they are tired from fighting for a long time and conquer them in one fell swoop. If he really holds on, we can also fight from the left and right to block the retreat of the Tang army and pick up a ready-made bargain. ”
The two looked at each other and smiled, and they were no longer annoyed, and they happily transferred the 100,000 troops they led away from the garrison mountain.
The news of Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen's 100,000 troops retreating thirty miles reached Luo Shixin's face at the first time, listening to the scout's message, Luo Shixin smiled and said to the left and right: "Whose opinion do you say this is?" ”
"No matter who it is, now we can be sure that there is no problem with the situation that General Zuo has given us, Gao Yanshou, Gao Huizhen and Yang Wanchun do have great contradictions, they are intriguing with each other, and they just cheapen us." Li Daozong said with a smile.
Su Dingfang said: "I guess it should be Yang Wanchun, he expects that Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen will not sincerely send troops to help, rather than let them be attacked by us in the garrison mountain, and consider how to rescue them, it is better to leave them in the rear and face us alone without scruples." He spoke with confidence, and had no doubt that they would defeat each other with less than twice as many forces as the enemy.
Not only him, but also the generals and colonels in the army had the same attitude, they were not worried about their few soldiers and the enemy's large number of soldiers, and they were full of confidence in the upcoming battle. This is not the pride of winning constantly, but the belief that the elite division who has won all battles has naturally formed the belief that they will be invincible.
Liu Renliang said: "I also agree with Manager Su's opinion, in addition, it is also imaginable that Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen are easy to retreat, and if they want to attack, it will be extremely difficult." Our enemy is just as imagined as we imagined, and there is only one Anshi Castle ......"
Luo Shixin thought that not far away was Anshi City, where Li Shimin stopped, and said with certainty: "History will not repeat itself, if you step on Ping'an City, you can directly point to the capital of Goguryeo, the victory or defeat is in front of you, and the generals will take the city with me." ”
He marched straight to Anshi and arrived outside Anshi that night......