Chapter 31: Reunification (1)
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Sitting together and playing tricks and talking about conditions on an equal footing can only be done by forces and people who are almost the same in strength as each other.
There is no moral justice between countries and between forces, and the strong side offers conditions, and the weak side can only passively choose whether to accept or not to accept it.
Often, these conditions are very harsh, taking away a strong sense of purpose, and if the weaker side does not accept it, it will have to be hit by the stronger side, or it will simply be forced by the war to agree.
Although the envoys sent by Li Tang were divided into father and son, Li Tang was a family, and when they jointly treated Bai Ye, they had the same views and goals, they thought that they were the stronger side, and Bai Ye was in a weak position, and they should accept their conditions.
Li Tang's conditions are not many, but each of them has a very strong purpose, which is completely to disintegrate the power of Bai Ye, ask him to surrender and become a member of Li Tang's courtiers.
Because they think they are strong, Du Ruhui and Cui Renshi have a tough attitude, and their tone of voice is full of tone, Du Ruhui sings white face, Cui Renshi sings black face, the two match, coercion and temptation, and want to achieve the goal of Li Tang surrendering without a fight and unifying the world.
Du Ruhui is quite talented, and he is also a famous minister in this Tang world, and he dominates the situation at the negotiation table, listing ten arguments that Li Tang will win the battle and lose the white night battle.
One by one, it is extremely reasonable, if the White Night Force is a feudal cold weapon force, then his ten-point argument is indeed sufficient, and the White Night will inevitably fail in the end.
It's a pity that there is no if, although Du Ruhui is a talent who governs the world, a famous minister's demeanor, and wisdom and learning, but he only has one shortcoming, as mentioned above, it is not that they are not wise enough, not smart enough, but born in this era, their vision will be limited by the times.
What Shi Zhixuan and Xu Ziling didn't expect was that the two of them had the upper hand at the negotiation table, not that the two of them were not intelligent enough and the corners of their mouths were unfavorable, but that the two of them had a deep sense of powerlessness for Niu playing the piano.
Shi Zhixuan and Xu Ziling knew the advantages and strengths of their own forces, but they couldn't tell Du Ruhui and Cui Renshi, even if they did, Du Ruhui and Cui Renshi didn't understand at all, and they didn't know what they were talking about.
What industrial base, what national education, what science and technology armament, except for the middle one, the other two, Du Ruhui and Cui Renshi were in a fog and couldn't figure it out.
The negotiations lasted for three days, and the two sides broke up unhappily, and did not organize the next negotiation, but on the other side, the negotiations between the White Night personnel and the concubine Xuan about the four holy monks went very smoothly.
The White Night Personnel and Shi Fei Xuan reached an agreement, and the righteous path provided a large number of basic martial arts and medical formulas for the White Night Forces, and the White Night Forces released the four captured holy monks.
Li Tang's envoy went back, and Shi Feixuan also went back to prepare to collect basic martial arts and medical books, and the White Night forces began to mobilize their troops and prepare to have a good fight with Li Tang.
It has been ten years since Bai Ye came to this world, taking advantage of the troubled times to rise, silently hibernating, and has already become a behemoth, across the earth, no one is no longer the opponent of this force.
When the news of the failure of the negotiations reached Chang'an, Li Yuan was furious and ordered the crown prince Li Jiancheng to command 100,000 troops to press on the territory of Baiye.
The White Night military referred to all aspects of intelligence, conducted a pre-war assessment, according to the calculation of the peak army of the Cold Weapon Era, in order to achieve the strategic goal, the White Night Force dispatched three legions, a total of about 100,000 people, will be defeated after the Tang Army, swept and expanded in three directions.
This battle was huge, and there were a lot of troops invested by both sides, but Li Tang's side, whether it was a sergeant or a common man, was very relaxed, as if the White Night Army could be broken and would be wiped out overnight.
People in the world who are not in the White Night influence area also believe that this will be the last tough battle for Li Tang to dominate the country, and from then on, no one in the whole country will dare to fight Li Tang's soldiers.
In the world, the once powerful forces against the king have almost been wiped out, only Bai Ye and the Song valve depend, the Song valve is difficult to get out of Lingnan, then only Bai Ye is still left and can compete with Li Tang, those remaining small forces, basically as soon as the Tang army arrives, immediately surrender the city, seeking to ensure a rich and safe.
The war began in the spring of 623, when the harsh winter had passed and the earth had returned to spring, avoiding the cold season, and in this warm time, the south was plunged into fierce war.
The battle of more than 200,000 people, the war was carried out from many points, in people's imagination, the Tang army should be invincible, the White Night Army will flee when the wind blows, and will be defeated for thousands of miles.
However, unexpectedly, it was not the White Night Army that collapsed, but the Tang Army.
In the advance of the White Night Army, one city after another was destroyed, Li Tang's cavalry and horses were all sent to the sky, and the infantry were wiped out in groups and groups, terrible weapons, terrible offensive methods, if it were not for the same clan, the White Night Army would have wiped out at least 30,000 Tang troops on the first day.
The gap is too big, on one side is the cold weapon army with big swords and spears and crossbows, and on the other side is the hot weapon army that has entered the explosives era, and the cold weapon army does not have a numerical advantage, how should this battle be fought?
The Tang army, which had been beaten to a loss of temper on the first day, took out their artifacts on the second day in order to restore morale, and one after another catapults used to siege the city were pushed out, and sadly, these catapults were bombarded into powder by the artillery of the White Night Army before they could throw a few stones.
A war that is not at one level, how can they not win.
On the fifteenth day of the war, the White Night Army completely defeated the Tang Army, and the three armies advanced to Hunan, Hubei, and Henan in accordance with the prior battle plan.
Invincible all the way, the forces that did not surrender and the Tang army were all beaten into a sieve by artillery fire, and even Li Jiancheng, who did not retreat in time, was captured by Kou Zhong, who was the commander of the Third Army at this time.
Kou Zhong did not kill him, but after seeing him, he gave him slightly better treatment than ordinary captives, and sent him to Broken City.
The pace of the war was too fast, the world was colorless, and the momentum before the war was huge, and they all thought that Li Tang had become a general trend, and the dog that didn't want to bite didn't bark, and the one hiding in the grass and revealing its flower tail was not necessarily a flower cat, but it could also be a tiger.
Song Que saw the news in the Song family's mountain city, he stood in the Knife Grinding Hall for a long time without speaking, he stared at the news from the Song family's personnel, and read it over and over again, he knew that the most transformative world of this era had arrived.
It was raining heavily in Chengdu today, and Xie Hui was standing in the corridor of his yard, with his hands behind his back, looking at the gloomy sky, without any expression on his face.
Chang'an Prince's East Palace, a cry, Qin Wangfu is no better, Li Shimin was left at home by Li Yuan, he held the big brother defeated and captured, the Tang army was annihilated, Luoyang and other places were captured, and he let out a long sigh.
Yumeng Mountain, Emperor Stepping Peak, ethereal clouds and mist all year round, there seem to be fairy traces, Concubine Xuan and Fan Qinghui also looked at the news in their hands in the main hall of Cihang Jingzhai Cihang Palace, and the master and apprentice didn't know what kind of thoughts they had in their hearts at this time.
The White Night forces turned over in just half a month, refreshing people's judgment of the strength and weakness between him and Li Tang, and it seemed to add a bit of instability to the unification of the world.
Some people are beginning to really pay attention to the White Nights Force, revealing their true side little by little.
This is an era of openness, a better time than the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, people can accept a lot of ideological concepts, far from the Southern Song Dynasty rotten Confucianism praised the world, talk about the co-governance of scholars and doctors, but make the country into a miasma, make some feudal etiquette and ignorance of people's hearts.
The more people found out, the more frightened they became, because these people were the clan lords, the five surnames and the seven hopes, and they had drawn a key point from the system of the White Night forces, which was that this force wanted to destroy the clan, not to rule the world with the people of the clan lords.
They were terrified, they did not dare to tell the common people the truth, they feared that one day the army of the White Nights would raid their homes and confiscate everything that was noble they were born into, so that they would be in line with the lower pariahs, and they would no longer have the slightest privilege.
Bai Ye gave up their desire to suppress the side of the White Night forces, and they looked all over the world, and only Li Tang, a big tree, could rely on.
The lips are cold and the teeth are dead, now Li Tang is the lips, they are the teeth, they will do their best to help Li Tang strengthen themselves, defeat, and even completely eliminate Bai Ye, so that Bai Ye's thoughts will not appear in the world again.
So, batches of talented people threw themselves into Li Tang, and the children of the family with the surname of Qiwang served in Li Tang one after another, they didn't dare, they were afraid that Bai Ye would win the world, so they had to do their best.
Li Shimin's subordinates have gathered a lot of talents, his eyes are still sharp, and he knows that his current army is by no means the opponent of the White Night Army, so he wants to learn from the White Night Army and study the weapons that the White Night Army relies on.
For a time, the White Night forces won the war, but in the eyes of the world, it seemed to have become a demon, an enemy, no allies, no family to take refuge, only some poor scholars ran to the White Night, but they need to start from scratch and climb from the lowest place.
There are enemies everywhere, Li Tang lost the war, but he won the hearts of the people, those clan lords came out to tout, and the literati and writers wrote lyrics, trying to meet Li Tang, and trying their best to scandalize the White Night forces.
In the martial arts, Bai Ye's methods and policies towards the martial arts sect were exposed, and countless sects accused Bai Ye, and under the organization of Cihang Jingzhai, they even established an anti-Bai Alliance, they were biased towards Li Tang and wanted to fight the White Night forces to the end.
When they were facing enemies on all sides, Song Valve stood on the side of White Night, and Song Que announced on Songjiashan City that Song Valve would join the White Night Force and become one of them.
The world was in an uproar, and the addition of the Song Valve brought a series of influences to the White Night Forces, and some small families and some weak Jianghu sects also threw themselves into the White Night Forces.
In order to add some blockage to Li Shimin, Bai Ye asked for a large amount of ransom money, and put Li Jiancheng back, and the two sides have since entered a long period of peaceful development, and they are accumulating strength for each other, knowing that the next time they fight, they will decide who is the real winner.