Murong Jue's matter is actually very simple, that is, the Murong family took the initiative to marry women.

Everyone has seen how ruthless the Tang State was to the old magnates, and more than 100,000 people who have been executed with Tang law over the years have basically been killed.

The worst thing is still the Sima family, which was almost killed, and there are only a few people left who are honest and have not made any big mistakes.

Many of the Murong family were killed, and many survived. There is really no way to do this, this family is surprisingly strange but also talented.

But the survivors are not at ease, for fear that they will be slaughtered one day, and the best way to save themselves is to marry the royal family. This is a rule that has been passed down through the ages, and everyone believes in this method of alliance.

It is a good way to marry a princess, but the rules of the Tang Kingdom are very strange and do not get along.

Then you can only send your own daughter to the palace.

Princess Murong Jue of Qinghe was young, beautiful, and knowledgeable, so she should have become the one who carried out the marriage plan.

It happened that Xie Daoyun was persuaded by Wen Yuan to be a good wife and mother, so he thought that the number of people in the harem was too small, so he simply found a few young and beautiful concubines for his husband.

It is a virtue for a wife to take the initiative to find a concubine for her husband.

But Wen Yi refused several times, and she had no choice. Later, after seeing Murong Jue, and knowing that they intended to marry, Xie Daoyun quietly handled this matter.

If you really want to say that it is not too much at all, she is fully qualified to be in charge of adding people to the harem and subtracting people.

However, considering her kidney and the subsequent impact, Wen Yi still wrote a letter to warn her sternly, and if there is such a thing in the future, she will withdraw her power in this regard.

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In the next few days, Wen Yi stayed in Lingyuntai, meeting with officials and generals from all sides, and listening to their reports.

The so-called reporting work is actually to make a show, and the real reason is to meet with various senior members, contact feelings, and stabilize loyalty.

If this kind of reporting had been relied on to understand the state of local governance, the country would have been in chaos long ago.

After staying here for seven days, the Praetorian Guard led by Ma Yibai arrived outside the city. After a day's rest, Wen Yi boarded the ship and headed for Shaancheng.

Shaanxi City is the Sanmenxia City in the previous life, at this time it was the gateway to Guanzhong, an important town in the world, and the land of Qin opened its door to the Tang State when it was lost.

Wen Yi and his entourage did not hide it, but swaggered to go, and made it clear to tell Fu to fight resolutely.

Fu Jian also got the news there, but he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Finally here, order the three armies, I will personally go to meet the lord of the Tang Kingdom for a while." ”

He brought almost all the troops he could bring with him on this trip, and a total of more than 100,000 troops marched towards Shaanxi.

As for the method of warfare, Wang Meng's idea was adopted: "The Tang army has the advantage of firearms, but Shaancheng is our place of death, and the best way is to take the initiative to attack and fight with it." ”

Zhang Hao said: "What if the Tang army avoids and does not fight? ”

Wang Meng said: "No, the nature of this war has changed when the Tang Emperor came to him, and what the Tang Kingdom needs is not only a victory, but also a hearty victory." ”

"Otherwise, everyone in the world will laugh at him for only playing with conspiracies and tricks, and the soldiers and people of my Qin State will not be convinced, which is not conducive to the rule of the Tang State in the later period."

The people may not care, but the soldiers are different, they did not fall on the battlefield but lost in the comprehensive national strength.

They won't be convinced.

There is really no way to decide something by simply winning or losing, and the process is just as important. For the army, the talent to defeat them head-on convinced.

A head-on decisive battle, after the battle, the Qin State surrendered en masse. And just like that, city by city to fight, which is better, this is clear at a glance.

For the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom, they also need a decisive victory to determine the prestige of their invincible division, and they need the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to get themselves a title or even a knighthood.

This is also the reason why Wen Yi came to the front line in person, otherwise he would have stayed in the northern capital until the Qin State was consumed.

So this battle is bound to be fought, and it has to be head-to-head.

Wen Yi arrived at the front line, and Li Zhong, the commander of the army, led the ministers of civil and military affairs to meet him. What followed was a large-scale military parade, and Wen Yi spent a whole day reviewing all the troops.

There is no need to say a word, as long as he appears in front of the soldiers, it is the greatest encouragement to them.

The morale of the whole army was immediately raised.

After reviewing the army, Wen Yi convened the generals to discuss the matter.

Headed by Li Zhong, more than 20 high-ranking generals, including Yue Shan, Shi Kangdang, Daniel Zhang, Sun Xiu, and Ding Chang, all attended the meeting, and several of them were from 2,000 people from Huiji County.

These people didn't all come here to gild, and it was impossible for Wen Yi to use such a big decisive battle to brush up on those people's achievements.

Li Zhong is an all-rounder, with a particularly strong view of the overall situation, and is a general who is an overall commander and the commander of the whole army.

Yue Shan is a veteran with rich experience, and Shi Dangdang and Daniel Zhang were the personal commanders of him and Xie Daoyun back then, and even transferred Lin Xingzhu for this battle.

"This battle is related to the unification of the world, it can be said that it is the last battle, not only to win but also to win beautifully, let's talk about what opinions you have."

Everyone's eyes looked at Li Zhong.

Li Zhong said uncomprehensibly: "In this battle, we have an absolute advantage in strategy, we have 300,000 troops, and the Qin State can only transfer 150,000 here. ”

There were only more than 300,000 people in total, 50,000 in Jincheng to defend Murong Chui, 50,000 in the Hetao line, and 50,000 to defend the Liangzhou line, and some defenders were scattered in other places.

It is an overestimate to say that Qin deployed 150,000 troops in Luozhou, but in fact there were less than 140,000, but all of them were elite.

Maybe someone is going to ask, didn't it mean that there should be a fair decisive battle? Why don't you bring everyone together and fight it out?

Don't make a mistake, give him a chance to fight, doesn't mean he has to fight head-on. You're not stupid, if you take the initiative to expose a flaw, I'm going to attack it.

If you don't show any flaws, I'll give you a chance to fight.

The reason why I gave you a chance to fight a decisive battle is also to make this battle look better, and it will be more convenient to recruit those foreign tribes in the future.

"Our morale is high, and the morale of the Qin army is low...... Of course, there is a word called trapped beasts fighting, which we must prevent, and we must not underestimate the Qin army's will to fight. ”

"We have absolutely superior forces, I sent 30,000 to guard Hongnong County, 30,000 to deter Weixing County, and prevent Qin from outflanking."

"In this way, we still have 240,000 people left in front of us, and Fu Jian has 150,000 (actually 140,000), and the difference in strength is about 100,000."

"We have 50,000 cavalry, 50,000 cold-weapon troops, and 140,000 firearms. Among them, 110,000 musketeers and 30,000 artillerymen. ”

"Now Fu Jian has only one choice, to fight us head-on, and bet that his 150,000 can beat our 240,000 army."

Wen Yi asked rhetorically: "What if he is not willing to fight a decisive battle, but lures the enemy deeper?" ”

Li Zhong said: "Shaancheng is the gateway to Qin, and if you lose this, Qin will lose all the roundabout space, so it is impossible for Fu Jian to retreat, he must choose to fight with us in Luozhou." ”

Luozhou is actually Luoyang, but because of the war in the world, Luoyang was divided into two.

This part of Luoyang City was in the hands of several forces, and finally fell into the hands of the Tang State. The other part fell into the hands of the former Qin, and the state was placed in the important town of Shaancheng.

Behind Shaancheng is the plain area of Pingchuan, which can directly kill Tongguan, the gateway to Guanzhong.

Although Tongguan is a dangerous pass in the world, judging from the current situation, even if the Qin State can hold it, then they will be trapped in the Guanzhong Plain for hundreds of miles.

More than 3 million people are concentrated in such a large and small place, and there is no need to fight at all, and it will not take a few days to collapse because of lack of food to eat.

At that time, they didn't blame Tang Guo for not giving them a chance to fight, it was their own incompetence.

Therefore, it is impossible for Fu Jian to give up Shaancheng, otherwise he will kill himself, and he must rely on this important town to find an opportunity to fight with the Tang Kingdom.

Wen Yi also knew this, and he deliberately asked this question just now, so that he could analyze the problem more clearly and tell everyone about it.

So he asked, "Have you all heard General Li's analysis clearly?" ”

"Hear me." The crowd replied.

Wen Yi continued: "In other words, there is a chance that this battle will be a head-on battle. ”

Li Zhong said: "Yes, we have enough troops, and we have completed the encirclement from three directions, and Fu Jian has no room for detours." ”

Wen Yi said: "Everyone knows the weakness of firearms, and it is not so easy to engage in battle, maybe they will be counterattacked by others." What are your thoughts? ”

Li Zhongdao: "The minister is not very good at making decisions on the spot, I recommend General Lin to be in charge of this battle." ”

Wen Yi smiled: "Oh, are you willing to give up this great achievement?" ”

Li Zhong said: "People are self-aware, and I am willing to give up command to General Lin." ”

Lin Xingzhu, who was on the side, didn't expect Li Zhong to recommend him as the commander of the battle, he was grateful and excited, and looked at Wen Yi expectantly.

He doesn't care if he doesn't take credit, he just enjoys the feeling of commanding a large army to fight.

In fact, all this was arranged a long time ago, otherwise he would not have been transferred, and the conversation just now was deliberately told to him and the officers and men of the whole army.

His pre-war command was agreed by the emperor and the generals, and everyone had to obey the command.

Otherwise, with Lin Xingzhu's qualifications, he would not be qualified to command such a huge army to fight. Not to mention anything else, Shi Dangdang and Daniel Zhang are not under his command.

Seeing that the play was almost done, Wen Yi said: "Okay, you are the commander of the army, I said before that I will leave the war to you, I don't care, since you, the commander, are willing to hand over the command to Lin Xingzhu, then leave it to him." ”

Li Zhong nodded and ordered: "Lin Xingzhu listens to the order. ”

Lin Xing got up and said, "The end will be." ”

Li Zhong said: "I have appointed you as the commander-in-chief of the operation, and you will be fully responsible for the decisive battle with the Qin State. The three armies, including me, must obey your orders, and anyone who disobeys will be dealt with by military law. ”

Lin Xingzhu said: "Yes." ”

Wen Yi looked at the others and said, "Did you hear the order just now?" ”

The generals said, "I heard it." ”

Wen Yi said: "Then I won't say any superfluous nonsense, just say one sentence, if anyone dares to disobey the order and delay the great cause of unification, don't blame me for not being emotional." ”

Everyone said in their hearts: "Yes." ”

After that, Lin Xingzhu began to make specific tactical arrangements.

Of course, because Fu Jian has not yet arrived, I don't know how he will arrange his troops, and at present, Tang Guo's side can only be regarded as deducing various possibilities.

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Fu Jian arrived three days later than Wen Yi, and when he learned about the deployment of Tang State's troops from Lu Guang, the defender of Shaanxi, he smiled bitterly: "This is forcing us to have a head-on battle with them." ”

"In the past, we wanted to fight but couldn't get it, but now we are forced to fight a decisive battle, and the initiative on the battlefield is in the hands of the enemy."

Wang Meng said: "But after all, the Tang Kingdom has given us a chance to fight a decisive battle, if they continue to drag on, I am afraid that there will not even be such a chance." ”

Even as an enemy, Fu Jian couldn't help but say: "Yes, Emperor Tang is a true hero, I can't talk to him face to face." ”

His wish was soon fulfilled, and the day after his arrival in Shaancheng, the Tang sent a messenger to deliver a letter with earnest words.

I admire Fu Jian's personality very much, and I am very happy to have such an opponent. If it weren't for the difference in position, I would definitely make this friend.

But although the two armies were fighting, they still hoped to meet in person, talk freely, and hope that he would come.

Shili Pavilion is a very ordinary pavilion ten miles away from Shaancheng, and it is a place where many people rest back and forth. Many people say goodbye to relatives and friends, and they will also send it here, so there is also a name called the farewell pavilion.

It's just that the name of the parting pavilion is unlucky, and everyone still likes to call it Shili Pavilion.

The key is that the Shili Pavilion is on high ground, and there are no people hiding for miles around, so there is no way to set up an ambush. It's a mutually acceptable location.

Fu Jian really didn't expect that Emperor Tang would ask him to meet at such a time. He subconsciously wanted to think about some conspiracy, but immediately denied it.

Not necessarily.

And judging from what the Tang Emperor did before, he is not such a sinister villain.

On the other hand, Tang Huang actually had such a high opinion of himself, and he was also very proud. And Wen Yi is not simply polite, but an evaluation given after commenting on many of his policies.

This made him feel like a confidant.

Looking at the letter in his hand, he said regretfully: "Hey, it's a pity that the person who knows me best is the enemy." However, if I can meet such an opponent, I will not regret even if I die. ”

Wang Meng was also surprised, but when he thought of the conversation with Tang Huang, he felt that this was normal, and it was indeed something that Tang Huang could do.

In some ways, which Tang Emperor is really similar to his own Heavenly King.

"What does the king want, do you want to go?"

Fu Jian said without hesitation: "Go, if you don't go, it will definitely become my lifelong regret." ”

Wang Meng was not surprised by this answer, and said: "The minister wants to go with His Majesty, thank Emperor Tang for his release last time, and ask the King of Heaven for permission." ”

Fu Jian said: "Okay, let's go see him together." ”

But when he told the others about his decision, everyone was unanimously opposed. Before the two armies fought, the king saw the king, isn't this child's play?

However, Fu Jian insisted on going his own way, and with Wang Meng's support, the others had no choice but to let them go.

However, for the sake of safety, the most thorough preparations were made.

In this way, two days later, Wen Yi and Fu Jian appeared at the same time in Shili Pavilion.