That night, Wang Rong didn't sleep well all night, even if he had already thought about how to fight and how to deal with it, but when the matter came to the door, he was still so excited that he couldn't sleep.

Someone once said that a strategic decisive battle is a gamble on the fate of the country and the fate of the army, and the word gambling is very unpleasant, but there is not a single right word to replace it.

Today's situation is such a situation, this is a decisive battle, a decisive battle between the Yu State and the nascent Tang State, which has just been founded for only two years.

If this battle is won, the Tang State will be like the Northern Wei Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, dominating the north and threatening the Jing, Xu, Yi and Yue States to the south.

If this battle is lost, the whole Tang country will definitely rarely dare to speak out in the future.

The fate of the country is often decided in this way, such as the Qin State, as a vassal state of Guanzhong, after the Shang Dynasty changed the law, it began to expand externally. successively conquered Ba, Shu, and Yiqu, and became a powerful country in the west. The kings of the Qin State since Qin Xiaogong had the intention of going east to destroy the Six Kingdoms.

First attacked Han, Wei, and Chu, these three countries were defeated, and ceded land to seek peace. Later, the Qin State met the powerful Zhao State, and a Changping War was fought for several months, and finally this fateful strategic decisive battle ended with the Qin State winning and killing 400,000 Zhao troops. Since then, the six Kwantung countries can no longer resist the momentum of Qin's eastward departure.

Another example is the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin's father and ancestors have been military generals of five dynasties and ten kingdoms. Zhao Kuangyin, as the commander in charge of the palace and the commander in chief of the Zhou Mabu Army, was dressed in a yellow robe, and usurped power after the founding of the country. The Northern Song Dynasty army under Zhao Kuangyin successively defeated the Houshu, Southern Han, Nanping, Wuping, Southern Tang, and defeated the Khitan forbidden army twice, which was the time when the morale was the highest, the combat effectiveness was the strongest, and the whole country was most confident in fighting.

But what happened later was that when Zhao Kuangyin was preparing for the Northern Expedition to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty, he died inexplicably. After his younger brother Zhao Guangyi succeeded to the throne, he lost to the Khitan in a strategic decisive battle, and this defeat, the sharpness, morale, and courage to expand abroad accumulated for decades were all gone, and the Northern Song Dynasty changed from strategic offensive to strategic defense, and the fate of a country also changed.

More recent is the Ming Dynasty, similar to the Northern Song Dynasty, a change of civil forts, completely changed the national policy of the Ming Dynasty, if the Ming Dynasty before the change of civil forts, is a strategic offensive at the national level, then the Ming Dynasty after the change of civil forts, completely turned into a strategic defense, more and more like the Northern Song Dynasty.

A strategic decisive battle can determine the fate of a country, and the new country must face it.

For example, the Xiongnu in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the Turks in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and now for the Tang Dynasty, it is the Yu State, if the Yu State can be completely defeated, just like the Han Dynasty to the Xiongnu, the Tang Dynasty to the Turks, then in the future for this new country is the Sunshine Avenue.

If not, it will be like the Song Dynasty and the middle and late Ming Dynasty, slowly falling into the arc-shaped encirclement of the Mongolian Plateau, the Western Regions, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and it is destined to be a country locked in agricultural areas.

The more far-sighted this pressure is, the greater the tension, and if you can't see it, you won't be so nervous.

However, it is precisely because he sees far away, he does not want to lose, a country wants to go long-term, wants to become bigger and stronger, in the early and middle years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there must be a punch, so as not to have the determination and courage to come with a hundred punches, such as the war of the Han Dynasty against the Huns, lay the spirit of a country, otherwise it will definitely end like the Song Dynasty later.

On the same day, after many generals were summoned to the Tang army camp in the western suburbs of Luoyang, Wang Rong changed into armor, and this time he decided to go on the field in person, and the armor was to make them understand the importance of this battle.

At noon, Wang Rong did not prepare lunch, and directly summoned the generals to discuss the matter.

In the big tent, all the generals sat together, Wang Rong was in the forefront, and three maps were hung on the wooden frame, the first was the overall situation in Henan County; the second is a detailed map of the vicinity of the city; The last one is a detailed map of the vicinity of Yique Pass.

"In the past few days, in the overall situation, in the direction of Yique Pass in our rear, Wang Tan and other generals have led the personal guard division to block the thieves of the Wei Hua Department of the Yu State, the 15th Army sent troops to the east, and the Fourth Army sent troops to the north, completely containing the thieves of the Yu Army of the Wei Hua Department, and our worries were completely relieved.

A few days ago, the second army defeated the Yu army between Longmen Mountain and Yique Pass, Wang Tan still held on to Yique Pass, and Yu gathered troops to fortify the city for more than ten days, and the attack was not overcome for a long time, and the morale suffered

Defeat.

I have decided that the time for a decisive battle has come."

Wang Rong directly used the word "judgment" and did not give everyone a chance to refute and express their opinions, which was completely different from his previous style, and also made everyone realize that this military discussion was extraordinary.

"The army of Yu is 300,000, although there are many people, but their morale is low, and they are short of food and grass, so there is nothing to fear."

Wang Rong said confidently, as if it wasn't him who was so anxious that he couldn't sleep last night.

Wang Rong looked at Lang Zeqing, the commander of the First Army, Meng Su, the commander of the Sixteenth Army, and Li Ji, the commander of the Twenty-first Army, and said slowly: "Now that Luoyang City has been surrounded by regiments, the mission of the Wuwei Army has come to an end. Next, the task of besieging Luoyang will be handed over to you, with Lang Zeqing as the main commander and Meng Su and Li Ji as the deputy commanders. There aren't many defenders left in this city, you just need to surround them or drive them outside the revolving gate."

Lang Zeqing took the lead in getting up and gave a military salute and said, "The last general will obey the order."

Wang Rong waved his hand at them and said, "Okay, you guys go down and prepare, and divide your own defense areas. The generals of the Yu army in Luoyang City still have some ability, don't be negligent."

"Whoa!" Everyone responded in unison.

After the three of them left, Wang Rong directly ordered Wang Xu and the four division commanders of the Wuwei Army: "Let Xiaojiewei send the order separately, and tomorrow on the fourth watch, the four divisions of the Wuwei Army will pull out the camp and march west."

"Whoa!" The five of them responded in unison.

After the noon discussion was over, the generals hurried back to their garrisons, and the four divisions of the Wuwei Army also began to reorganize their armaments for battle, and Wuluo, Chu Luxu, Yuan Tiangang, and Changwo began to mobilize their troops, reorganize their armaments, and prepare for the march early tomorrow morning.

On the other hand, Wang Rong was in the big tent, on the one hand, he continued to listen to reports from the direction of Yique Pass, and he was afraid that the army of Yuguo would leave.

On the other hand, Wang Mao, Ouyang Xun, and Zhang Genghuang worked with him to study the tactics that the Yu army might use on the battlefield.

That night, Wang Rong slept very deeply, because there were too many things today and he was too busy.

The sky was bright, Wang Xu woke him up, Wang Rong washed his face in a drowsy manner, and soon came to his senses, outside the big tent there were already drums and trumpets shaking the sky, the sound of horses' hooves rumbling, and the army was gathering.

Wang Wei ordered Wang Xu to put on armor for him, and hung a copper-handled eight-sided long sword around his waist, and also equipped with a crossbow with an arm, without a spear, he felt that he had no chance to charge.

From the beginning of the large-scale war with the Xiongnu in the Han Dynasty, the sword that came from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and the Chu and Han Dynasty was gradually eliminated, and the sword became the main equipment of the army, because the Han Dynasty began large-scale cavalry battles, and the sword was better used to fight on horseback.

However, for Wang Rong, the sword is a symbol of identity, power, and force, and whether it is good or not is secondary.

When Wang Rong arrived outside the camp on horseback with his own soldiers, on the open ground to the west, the army of 60,000 had been assembled, and the vast phalanx had been stretched for more than ten miles from east to west.

"March!" Wang Rong ordered.

Soon, the desolate trumpet sounded in the Tang army camp, and the black army began to diverge, and then went westward, and between the large fields, the long steel dragon could not see the head and tail.

Many of the recruits were nervous and speechless, and some of the veterans whistled and laughed, and the sound quickly dissipated in the wind across the fields, except for the sound of the rubbing of the nails, the sound of horses' hooves, and heavy footsteps far away.

Wang Rong looked at the west end of the long dragon from afar, and his vision reached the end of a poplar forest in a field, and he knew in his heart that further west was the army of more than 300,000 people of the Yu Kingdom.