Chapter 725: Southern Expedition
The army was assembled in Luoyang one after another.
Grain and grass from all over the country were also delivered to the front line in advance.
Among the three roads, the East Road is the most relaxed, starting from Luoyang, going down the Yingshui River and reaching Shouchun directly.
When the expedition was set, the fathers and elders of Luoyang came to see them off, and the vast crowd was crowded.
Luoyang, the ancient capital, gradually restored its former prosperity under the rule of Daliang, with a population of more than 700,000, and the Luozhong region is longitudinal and horizontal, with a population of nearly 2 million.
There is an endless stream of business travel from the east and west, and an endless stream of goods from the north and south.
Li Yue carefully told Li Jian not to interfere too much in the war, to focus on stability, and to ask Huan Yi and Liu Ying more when encountering unknown things.
"My father has good intentions, and my sons know it." Li Jian was riding on a horse, and his body was slightly thin, not as good as his brothers.
"Frugal ......" Cui Yansi cried again, and he still hasn't changed this problem after so many years.
"What are you crying about, it's like a funeral." Being made by her like this, Li Yue was irritable for a while.
Cui Yansi's eyes widened, and the tears finally stopped.
"The queen mother doesn't have to worry, and the sons and daughters don't really go to the front line to fight." Li Jian, in turn, comforted her as a mother.
"Alright, the soldiers have been waiting outside the city for a long time, so let's go early." Li Yue waved his hand.
Every time it is like parting with life and death, it is unlucky.
As a prince, he has no military merits hanging on his body, how can he suppress the generals in the future?
Not to mention his brothers, who are quite talented.
As soon as Li You arrived in the Western Regions for less than two months, he fought a victory, defeating the Xiongnu, Rouran, and Gaoche coalition forces, killing more than 2,000 people and capturing 5,000 people.
Li Fu in the east, contaminated with the ferocious spirit of Liaodong, often led more than 1,000 horsemen to sweep the northern Kumoxi, Khitan, Xianbei and other tribes, and Goguryeo friction in the design of ambushes, shot the enemy generals and returned, bravely crowned the three armies, in just three or four years, Li Fu became famous in the Liaodong army, became Cui Jin's right-hand man.
The other brothers are not general.
Li Xin, Li Jun, and Li Ji are also emerging in Shangwutang.
Li Yue has definitely put a lot of effort into the cultivation of his heirs, in addition to teaching them by word and deed, he also invites talented people to be their teachers.
However, this also put Li Jian under great pressure, and behind each brother, there is more or less a force to support him.
The Kwantung clan, the Kansai clan, the assimilated tribes, the old ones, the Hanmen Shu clan, etc., were more or less involved in it, and changed to another way of fighting.
Li Yue is also helpless about this, fortunately, he is strong and strong, as long as he controls the female color a little, he will live for another thirty years, and it will not be a big problem to be sixty or seventy years old.
For thirty years, the prince's foundation is only as stable as Mount Tai, and no one can shake it.
"Father, mother, and son-in-law are gone." Li Jian gave up his hand on the horse, and then walked slowly south without looking back.
Cui Yansi's eyes burst into tears again.
"What are you crying about, every time I go on an expedition, why don't I see you cry?"
These words successfully won her a roll of her eyes, and she said absent-mindedly perfunctorily: "What kind of person is Your Majesty? Why should concubines be worried? ”
"It's heartless to say that."
Some women are over thirty and are tofu dregs, and some are a flower.
The Cui family is all good-looking, Cui Yansi is well maintained, thirty-four or five, and he is more and more graceful and luxurious.
Li Yue's heart was hot......
Li Jian led 50,000 horses to the east, and after Li Yue carefully pacified the harem, he led an army of 30,000 to the south.
If Jiangdong still has hard bones to gnaw, Xie Xuan's Beifu Army will definitely be counted as a piece.
After all, Fu Jian, who is invincible in history, was buried in the hands of the Beifu army.
However, Fu Jian's mobilization of 800,000 troops at a time is a brute force, except for increasing the logistical burden, it is basically of little use, and the elite who can really fight is only 60,000 or 70,000.
From this point of view, Fu Jian is actually not a person who knows soldiers, and he is too much worse than his father Fu Xiong.
After the defeat of Weishui, there were actually a lot of troops in hand, and the basic plate in Guanzhong was still there, but even Yao Chang couldn't do it, and he was killed by him.
After a month of unhurried marching, constantly clamouring along the way, known as the 100,000 army, slowly arrived in Xiangyang, and put on a posture of attacking Lexiang.
He also sent an edict to Huan Wen and Xie Xuan, asking them to surrender on their own initiative.
Huan Wen didn't pretend this time, withdrew his previous deference, scolded Daliang for Di Liang, Li Yue for Emperor Hu, and led the northern beasts to kill the people of Jiangdong......
Xie Xuan's reply was quite in Xie An's style, and he very politely persuaded Li Yue to rest the soldiers, and the two families were in peace with each other, so as not to lose harmony.
"Give the last general 10,000 elites, don't break Jiangnan, come and see you!" This kind of occasion is indispensable for Zhang Oyster.
Li Yue looked at the map, now that Bazhong has been taken, Xue Qiang's 30,000 army is in the west, and Cao Kan's 20,000 Zhen army is in the north, if it is a strong attack, Xie Xuan will definitely not be able to resist it.
The Chu army is known as an army of 50,000, but in fact, the army that can fight is only 10,000 Beifu troops in Xie Xuan's hands, and the others are all made up of numbers.
However, the fortresses and dock forts south of the Yangtze River are dotted, all of which are close to the Yangtze River, and if they are gnawed one by one, the loss will be not small.
No matter how many Yidi Zhen soldiers die, Li Yue will not care, but if the Black Cloud Army is killed or injured, Li Yue will feel distressed.
They are the foundation of Liang Guo.
And how to cross the Yangtze River is also a big problem.
The Liang navy was at sea, and half of the Jiangdong navy was in Jingxiang.
"That's not how the battle was fought, besides, why did you smash Jiangnan?" Li Yue said with a smile.
"If you don't attack Jiangnan, where will you attack?" Zhang Oyster bravely crowned the three armies, and has never liked to use his brains, and likes to go straight.
Xu Chengdao: "Your Majesty's intention is not in Wuchang?" ”
The section from Yiling to Xiakou was full of fortresses and heavily defended, but when it came to Wuchang, the troops were relatively sparse.
"Not bad." Li Yue nodded.
Xu Chengdao: "The last general fought with Xie Xuan several times, this person is good at the art of war, quite strategic, since he defends the south of the Yangtze River, he will definitely not neglect Wuchang, Wuchang has few troops, all because the city is strong, the grain and grass are sufficient, and he is not afraid of attacking from other places." ”
Sun Quan once moved the capital to Wuchang for a period of time, and was defended by Jiangdong generals such as Lu Xun, Zhuge Ke, and Tao Huang.
In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wuchang was still an important town, with generals guarding it, and Xiangyang, Jiangling, and Wuchang formed an iron triangle to defend the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
Jiangdong lost Xiangyang and Jiangling, and must work hard in Wuchang.
Strategically despise the enemy, tactically value the enemy.
What you can think of, the enemy will definitely think.
Li Yue stared at the map, the Yangtze River turned southeast from Yiling, to Dongting Lake to the northeast, and connected with the Han River, Xiangyang was just in the center of the triangular defense, and he suddenly had a countermeasure in his heart.
There is only one Xie Xuan, and there is only one Beifu army, but there are too many areas to defend.
"The art of war is cloudy, and those who are good at fighting will cause people but not others. He who can make the enemy self-defeating, also benefit; Whoever can prevent the enemy from reaching will also do harm. Now with the crowd of our army and the prosperity of our country, the whip is thrown into the river, and the flow is broken, what danger does Xie Xuan have? ”
Although Jiangdong has reached the end of the road, it is really hard to say what the outcome will be if he does not show some real skills.
Just like the Southern Song Dynasty, it resisted Mongolia for six years.
Li Yue didn't have so much energy to fight for six years, and it was impossible for him to fight like this, "Let the Jiangdong rats see my methods!" ”
(End of chapter)