On the night of the thirtieth day, Li Shimin convened a pre-war military meeting as usual, and the topic was how to fight a decisive battle with Dou Jiande's Xia army. In fact, for this problem, the young King Qin had already made a comprehensive consideration, and at this time, among the senior generals of the Tang Army who guarded the Tiger Prison Pass with him, except for Yu Wenshi, the rest were all his descendants.

Therefore, this military discussion is actually Li Shimin's one-man show, he first arranged for people to lead more than 1,000 war horses to graze on the sandbar in the Yellow River north of Hujiao Pass, making a sign that the military horses in Guanzhong have no forage, so as to attract the capital overseers to send troops to knock on the pass.

The strongest of the Tang Army is the Xuanjia Army in Li Shimin's hands, if the Xuanjia Army has no war horses, it is easier to bully than a toothless tiger. And what the Xia army lacks the most is the elite cavalry, in the previous several battles, it has been repeatedly beaten by the dream man and the Xuanjia army, so as soon as this plan comes out, I don't worry that Dou Jiande will not be successful.

However, in fact, the elite cavalry of the Tang Army was originally established by Shi Danai's Turkic cavalry as the backbone, and the Li Tang royal family already had Xianbei blood, and neither the Xianbei cavalry nor the Turkic cavalry could be one person or one horse, and more than one reserve horse was necessary. That is to say, although the Xuanjia army only has a thousand people, there are at least more than 2,000 war horses in their hands, and they are completely unaffected by grazing sandbanks.

Now that he recognized that Dou Jiande would definitely send troops, he should then consider how to defeat the 100,000 Xia army with weak troops.

"In the Ming Dynasty, the whole army will have a meal in advance, and in the afternoon, when the Xia army is hungry and tired, it will be the time for our army to act." Li Shimin glanced at the generals and asked, "At that time, a general will need 300 cavalry from west to south to test the formation first." I don't know if you have volunteered, but this pioneer? ”

Because Sima Fuqiang said in advance that it was Yuwen Shiji who served as the vanguard to test the formation, but due to Dou Jiande's stubborn resistance, the actual effect was not significant. From the perspective of grabbing military merits, the Donghai team and the Tianshan team should choose Li Shimin's main force in the middle, or follow Qin Qiong and others to make a detour to the opponent's formation and sneak attack.

Huang Zhi and Zhan Musi naturally followed the advice of Sima Fuqiang, a professional, and made up their minds to let the black wolf and his team gnaw this hard bone.

At this time, Huang Zhi saw that the black wolf was quietly looking at his side, obviously looking at his face, and he wanted to decide their movements according to the choices made here. Therefore, he had an idea, raised one leg and made a gesture to take a step forward and fight for the position of striker.

The black wolf really hit the plan, and a dodge flashed out of the military attache sequence like a teleportation, and he was the first to speak, "The last general is willing to take on the position of the striker!" ”

Sima Fuqiang secretly glanced at his teammates, but he didn't expect him to use this method to lure the other party out, and by the way, he also exposed his exclusive skills.

Li Shimin didn't notice Huang Zhi's small movements, and when he saw the black wolf coming out, he assigned this task to him. However, after this period of observation, he was a little uneasy about the black wolf's personal ability, on the one hand, the lack of combat effectiveness, and on the other hand, his distrust in his command ability, so he asked his boss Yu Wenshi and others to go out together as a vanguard general.

Successfully yin the black wolf, Huang Zhi is already quite satisfied, and he doesn't care much about the later arrangements.

Li Shimin himself was naturally the main force of the Chinese army, attracting the attention of Dou Jiande's army head-on, otherwise how could he let the sneak attack troops on the left side play the role of a surprise soldier, so he asked the generals present who were willing to make a detour behind the enemy to steal the camp.

If people who do not know history are faced with this choice, they will definitely think that this is a dangerous errand, because the Xia army has as many as 100,000 people, and even after deducting the baggage soldiers who have no combat effectiveness, there are at least tens of thousands of troops. If the sneak attack fails, it is really a question of whether you can come back safely and fight the large army.

But with a person like Sima Fuqiang who is familiar with history here, he naturally doesn't need to worry about this. Under his prior prompting, at this time, Zhan Musi, who did not need to worry about the black wolf making trouble, stepped forward and asked King Qin for battle.

Li Shimin naturally agreed to his request, but considering the heavy responsibility of this roundabout force, he simply ordered a few generals to go with him. The first to be named was naturally Qin Qiong, the boss of the Tianshan team, and then there was Cheng Zhijie, who had the same name as him, as well as Shi Danai and Yu Wenxin of the Xuanjia Army.

At this time, Li Shimin set his eyes on Li Shiji, who was in front of the two people in the East China Sea team, and fell into a long silence, as if he was thinking about something.

Huang Zhi nodded slightly sideways and asked softly, "Captain, what does he think Li Shiji does?" ”

Sima Fuqiang looked thoughtfully at the young man in front of him, "He's hesitating whether to let Li Shiji also go around the troops." ”

"Why? Doesn't he trust Li Shiji very much? Huang Zhi obviously doesn't know much about these deep-seated historical issues.

"Not that problem." Sima Fuqiang shook his head with an amplitude that others could not detect, "You also know that Li Shiji was the governor of Liyang before, and in October 619, Dou Jiande failed to attack Youzhou Luo Yi, and passed through Liyang on the way back, and was defeated by Qiu Xiaogang, the general of Li Shiji's army. Annoyed and angry, Dou Jiande led a large army to attack Liyang and captured Li Shiji's father, Li Gai, as a hostage. Li Shiji had no choice but to surrender in order to save his father. ”

"Oh, what about later?" These things are a little too unpopular for Huang Zhi, and he can't get in touch with these trivial things because he doesn't study history deeply enough.

In the first month of 620, Li Shiji wanted to attack Dou Jiande to rescue his father, but he failed to succeed in the end, so he had to give up his father and return to Li Tang. Because Dou Jiande admired his personality, not only did he not hold a grudge against him, but sent his father back. So Li Shiji now has a knot, and he can't make a move on Dou Jiande. Sima Fuqiang finally made it clear what Li Shimin was considering.

Huang Zhi figured out the ins and outs of the whole thing, and couldn't help but look at Li Shiji's somewhat lonely back again. Although he knew that Li Shiji's life would not be depressed because of this incident, as his subordinate and had always been taken care of, Huang Zhi decided to help him.

Seeing that Li Shimin was still continuing his long thoughts, Huang Zhi coughed lightly before stepping out of the ranks of generals, "Does His Majesty King Qin feel that the manpower of the roundabout troops is still a little insufficient?" If so, the end will be wished! ”

According to several previous precedents, if the black wolf plays, Yu Wenshi and his entourage, and if Zhan Musi plays, Qin Qiong is also indispensable, so if the East China Sea team plays, Li Shiji can't shirk it according to the example.

Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately heard his voice, this is Huang Zhi's giving Li Shiji a chance, and it is also something he wants to do but can't do.

How could Li Shiji not see this, his body couldn't help but tremble, obviously there were still some cruxes in his heart that could not be solved.

Li Shimin first looked at the expression on Li Shiji's face before turning his head to Huang Zhi and asking, "Since Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie each led a copy of the Xia army's back road, I don't know what else you can do along the way?" ”

As for the problems existing in Xia Jun at this time, Sima Fuqiang had made a detailed analysis for him beforehand, so Huang Zhi could fully deal with the inquiries from Li Shimin at this time, "Dou Jiande Xia Jun is known as 100,000, but among them is the newly incorporated Song Yi King Menghai Gongbu. The two armies look like they are separated, and they can be separated and attacked, causing them to mess up their positions. ”

Li Shimin was amazed when he heard this, "This is very good!" Li Shiji listens to orders! ”

"The last general!" Li Shiji didn't have any psychological burden for attacking Meng Haigong's troops, so he naturally stood up without hesitation.

"I order you to take Ma Qiang, Zhang Shixin and others all the way alone, detour behind enemy lines, and attack Menghai Gongbu!" After Li Shimin announced this military order, he glanced at Huang Zhi with appreciation.

The military discussion ended, and the rest of the unassigned generals naturally followed Li Shimin's army in the middle. In fact, this so-called "army" is only a few thousand people, plus the three hundred people of Yu Wenshi and the black wolf, as well as the roundabout troops led by Li Shiji, Qin Qiong, and Cheng Zhijie, the Tang army in the Tiger Prison Pass at this moment is no more than 10,000 people.

With an army of this size, Li Shimin strategized and used it to defeat Dou Jiande's 100,000 army.

Early the next morning, that is, on the first day of the fifth month, the Tang army sent a small team of men and horses to drive the reserve horses of the Xuanjia army to graze on the sandbar in the middle of the Yellow River according to the plan. Dou Jiande, who learned of this news, led a large army to line up on the east bank of the Bishui River, preparing to attack the Tiger Pass.

This Bishui River is in the open area east of the Tiger Prison Pass, flowing into the Yellow River from south to north, and it is also the only place in this area where Dou Jiande can deploy his army of 100,000.

But Dou Jiande was soon disappointed, because he saw the Tang army with neat soldiers and horses appearing on the west bank of the Bishui River, and the signature cavalry team in Xuanjia was not as horseless as imagined, and immediately realized that he had fallen for Li Shimin's plan. However, the army has already lined up by the river, and it is bound not to retreat lightly, otherwise the blow to morale will undoubtedly be huge, even devastating.

Originally, he planned to take advantage of the numerical advantage so that the Tang army could not determine from which position he would force the crossing of the Bishui River. But now that the Tang army has the speed advantage of the Xuanjia Army, no matter where the Xia army intends to force the crossing from, they will definitely be able to feel it at the first time and deliver a fatal blow.

Therefore, Dou Jiande had to let his army and the other party stalemate on both sides of the Bishui River, and then he hurriedly led his generals back to the camp and held a temporary military meeting to discuss countermeasures.

The time soon came to noon, and the Xia army, who was mostly foot soldiers, was already hungry and dry at this time because of the relatively early departure, and only thought about returning to the camp to have lunch, and then take a nap beautifully, instead of standing stupidly by the Bishui River.

The Tang army came out of the Tiger Prison Pass late, and the main force had already secretly eaten dry food, so it was full of energy for a while, just waiting for the moment when the other party relaxed.

After a while, the Xia soldiers saw that most of the senior generals of the army were not present, so they ignored the queue and military discipline, and either sat on the ground or flocked to the Bishui River to drink water to quench their hunger and thirst. At this time, the entire army had completely lost its formation, and the order was also chaotic.

The generals of the Xia Army who stayed behind relied on their large number of people, and did not think that the Tang Army would take advantage of this opportunity to attack, so the soldiers under them were lazy. However, they soon realized that they were wrong, because the Tang army on the opposite side moved, and a cavalry of about 300 men rushed to the shallow upper reaches of the south, waded directly across the river, and launched an attack on the left flank of the Xia army.

In fact, if it weren't for being a thief, the remaining generals of the Xia army could completely ignore this team of only 300 people. To put it mildly, even if they were allowed to kill without resistance, these 300 people would not be able to shake the formation of the 100,000-strong army.

But the weak-hearted Xia generals overreacted and moved the entire army to the south, trying to stop the three hundred light horsemen who had already read the Bishui River. To use an analogy, this is the use of cannons to fight mosquitoes.

Li Shimin was waiting for this scene, and taking advantage of the fact that all the attention of the other party was attracted by Yu Wenshi and the three hundred people, he immediately led the middle route army to forcibly cross the river and go straight into the camp of the other party's Chinese army. At the same time, the two teams of dreamers also followed Li Shiji and Qin Qiongzhu from the place where the lower reaches of the Bishui River were connected to the Yellow River, set up temporary pontoon bridges to secretly cross the river, and began to detour to the rear of the Xia army.

Xia Jun's fear of Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army can be said to be deep in the bone marrow, and he actually let Li Shimin break directly into the camp without resistance, interrupting Dou Jiande's temporary military discussion. After Dou Jiande and other senior generals of the Xia army were alarmed, they resumed their command of the army, exchanged depth for time, led the troops all the way back, slowly organized a defensive formation, and finally blocked Li Shimin's Chinese army.

Seeing that the attack had been frustrated, Li Shimin stopped to rest for a while, waiting for the sneak attack troops on the detour back road to arrive before continuing.

At that time, the Xia army entered Guangwu Mountain in the east of Tunhu Prison Pass, and built a palace in Banzhu, echoing Wang Shichong and threatening the Tang army's flank. Therefore, Banzhu is the base camp of the Xia army, and all the grain, grass, baggage and camp are there.

When Li Shimin's Chinese army contained Dou Jiande's main force, the Tianshan team followed Qin Qiong straight to Banzhu, and after defeating a small number of defenders, they erected the banner of the Tang army on the mountain.

At the same time, the Donghai team and Li Shiji led 500 Xuanjia troops to attack the Menghai Gongbu on the left flank of the Xia army, while shouting "The Xia army has been surrounded!" ”

Meng Haigong was a gentry of Caozhou (Dingtao, Shandong), who rebelled in March of the ninth year of the Great Cause (613), and because of his remote location, he never fought with the Sui army. After the uprising, it was not until 620 that it fought a battle with Dou Jiande's Xia army, but it still ended in defeat and was incorporated into the Xia army.

Such a force, its combat effectiveness is so weak can be imagined, when they saw the ferocious dream man and the Tang Army Xuanjia Army, they had no battle at all. He also saw that the banner of the Tang Army had indeed been planted on Banzhu Mountain in the distance behind him, and he believed that he had been surrounded by the Tang Army.

In order to save his life, Meng Haigongbu chose to escape. Even if they ran away, Dou Jiande didn't expect much from them, but what made him even more angry was that Meng Haigong's direction of running was too particular. Because there are suspected Tang army troops in Banzhu in the rear, Li Shiji's 500 Xuanjia army on the left flank of the Yellow River, and Li Shimin's main force in the front, so Meng Haigong's troops can only flee in the direction where the main force of the Xia army is located in the middle road.

The so-called people are more courageous, from the perspective of human nature, in fact, they are not wrong, but this moment completely dispersed the defensive position that Dou Jiande had managed to stabilize.

Li Shimin almost laughed and began to pursue with the army in the middle lane, Huang Zhi's suggestion was really wonderful, and Li Shiji's performance was not bad, almost destroying the morale of the Xia army at the smallest cost.

This was followed by a thirty-mile-long pursuit, in which no more than 3,000 Xia troops were killed, but more than 50,000 people surrendered voluntarily, almost half. When Dou Jiande fled to Niukouzhu, he was wounded and captured by the Tang army chariot generals Bai Shirang and Yang Wuwei.

Without Dou Jiande, the remaining remnants of the defeated army are no longer to be feared, and Li Shimin has no time to chase after him. Even because his own army had less than 10,000 people and could not digest too many prisoners, even the captured 50,000 defeated troops could only be dismissed on the spot and go with them. This also caused Dou Jiande's general Liu Heimin to easily pull up another team of men and horses to continue to fight against Li Tang.

After returning to the Tiger Prison Pass to rest for a while, leaving a small number of troops to garrison, Li Shimin quickly returned to Luoyang with Li Shiji and others. When Wang Shichong, who had no fighting spirit at the head of Luoyang City, saw Dou Jiande sitting in the prisoner car, he finally realized that he no longer had the capital to continue to resist Li Shimin, so he gave up resistance on the ninth day of the fifth month and went out of the city to surrender.

The ten-month Battle of Luoyang-Tiger Prison also contributed to the surrender of Wang Shichong due to Dou Jiande's defeat, and Li Tang temporarily unified most of the north before Dou Jiande's troops made a comeback of Liu Heimin. Next, it's time to use troops to Xiao Milling in the south, but that should be a battle that will only appear in the main line of the Sui and Tang dynasties next Monday, and people can return to "reality" for the time being to take a good rest.

Although they only participated in the later stage of the Luoyang-Tiger Prison battle, both the Tianshan team Zhan Musi and the Donghai team made up for the contribution of Li Tang's camp, leaving the black wolf and his team far behind.

Li Shimin was awarded the title of General Tiance because of this battle, and was allowed to open up the Tiance Mansion in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and his generals also benefited a lot, and the three dream people of the two teams were promoted to make a fortune again, and the team received a rare B evaluation, not to mention, Sima Fuqiang and Zhan Musi were awarded the Huaihua Zhonglang General under the fourth grade, and Huang Zhi also replaced the Xuanwei general from the fourth grade.

The captain of the East China Sea once again obtained the same rank and military attache position as the Dongzhou forces in the main line of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and I don't know if it was a matter of luck or intentional in the dream world.

Judging from this situation, as long as they continue to develop so smoothly, not to mention that they are destined to become the chief dreamers of the main line of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, even Sima Fuqiang and Huang Zhi can easily step into the threshold of the three products and become the highest treatment except for the twenty-four meritorious heroes of Lingyan Pavilion.

With the pleasure of satisfaction, the dream lovers of the two teams cherished each other, and then returned to the "real" world.

(To be continued)