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Li Shimin, who had been hiding in Taiyuan's nest, soon received the "surrender letter" written by Li Yuan himself, and tore it up as soon as possible, and publicly mourned, saying that Li Yuan and Li Valve's high-level officials had died in Chang'an.
Wang Zhong had long expected that Li Shimin would do this, so he immediately called Li Yuan and publicly issued a statement, saying that Li Shimin was guilty of rebellion and rebellion, and expelled him from the Li family.
Li Shimin's response was that Li Yuan was fake, and Wang Zhong was looking for someone to pretend to be in order to split Taiyuan.
In short, Li Shimin is dead here, and as Li Yuan's only living son, it is logical for him to inherit everything from Li Yuan.
Li Shimin is worthy of being the future emperor of the ages, he can sacrifice everything for the sake of hegemony, even if Lao Tzu's brothers, sisters and relatives all give up.
Wang Zhong saw that he could not recruit Li Shimin, so he gave up and let Kou Zhong lead 50,000 Liaodong iron cavalry to attack Taiyuan, and he began to conquer the world with 200,000 troops.
The first opponent he looked for was "Wagangzhai".
As the first rebel army at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the strength of "Wagang" was strong, and the million rebel army was not empty words, under the threat of Wang Zhong, the big leader Zhai Rang and the second leader Li Mi put aside their prejudices and unanimously went to the outside world.
The million-watt gang rebel army and the 200,000-strong army of Liaodong fought in the "hegemony".
Wang Zhong is like Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu in the past, who led an army of 200,000 to break through the cauldron and sink the boat, break through the million-dollar Wagang army in one fell swoop, capture the second dragon leader Li Mi alive, and kill the big dragon leader Zhai Rang.
This rebel army, which had been a headache for the Great Sui for many years, finally disappeared in the face of Wang Zhong's devastating strength.
So far, the northern land, except for Li Shimin's Taiyuan, has been occupied by the king of Liaodong.
On the Taiyuan side, Li Shimin and Kou Zhong fought a few times, each with their own winners and losers, so that the world knew the excellent military talents of these two people at the same time.
Wang Zhong saw that Kou Zhong could suppress Li Shimin for the time being, so he should cultivate him, let him fight with Li Shimin, make trouble, and devote his energy to the south.
Yuwen Valve and Dugu Valve take Jiangdu as the center, rule the river, occupy a large area of land in the south of the Yangtze River, and see that the king of Liaodong is powerful, and they do not provoke, but want to learn from the Three Kingdoms in Dongwu, relying on the Yangtze River.
In the fourteenth year of the great cause, spring began in March.
Wang Zhong led 100,000 naval troops to officially start the war to unify the Central Plains.
Originally, everyone in the world thought that this battle would have to be fought for several years, after all, the northerners were not conducive to water warfare.
But the fact is that the 100,000 sailors led by Wang Zhong were all the troops of the Great Sui Pyongyang Province in those years, and the 100,000 sailors who conquered Goguryeo in those years were not afraid of the sea, how could they be afraid of the small Yangtze River.
In addition, the Yuwen valve and the Dugu valve usurped the throne and became self-reliant, and they had no ability to govern the world, which made the people of Jiangnan miserable and detached.
In June of the 14th year of the Great Cause, the naval army led by Wang Zhong and the naval army of the Yuwen Valve and the Dugu Valve met at the mouth of the Dujiang River, and the two sides launched a water battle that scorched for a month.
In July, the Jiangnan Navy mutinied, disobeying the command of the commander Dugu Xin, Wang Zhong saw the opportunity, led the army to break through, broke through the main force of the Jiangnan Navy in one fell swoop, and killed Dugu Xin.
At the end of July, the naval army led by Wang Zhong set foot on the land south of the Yangtze River and began a full-scale battle of subjugation.
Yu Wenhua and Wang Zhong were strong, and they did not dare to confront it head-on, so they directly abandoned the capital Jiangdu, and retreated again and again with 30,000 personal soldiers until they retreated to the land of Bashu.
In September, the Song valve suddenly raised troops, outflanked Yu Wenhua's army, and Wang Zhong's army showed a front and rear attack, forming a ten-sided ambush array, trapping Yu Wenhua and.
During this period, Yuwen Valve No. 1 Master Yuwen Injury and Dugu Valve No. 1 Master You Chuhong joined forces to break through, but they were blocked by Wang Zhong alone, and they killed the two masters with a move in front of the battle, and slaughtered Yu Wenhua and 10,000 vanguard troops with their own strength.
At this point, Yu Wenhua completely lost his will to fight, and led the generals to surrender to Wang Zhong.
In October, Wang Zhong slaughtered Emperor Yang Guang in the name of Yu Culture and bullying the monarch, and executed him in front of the three armies.
In November, Wang Zhong and the Song Valve subdued the sporadic forces in Jiangnan and implemented the "ban on martial arts" throughout the country.
Wang Zhong also named Song Shidao, the lord of the Song valve, as the king of Zhennan in the name of the imperial court, Yongzhen Lingnan, hereditary replacement!
In addition to the land of Taiyuan, the world has been fully recovered, to protect the children of Yang Guang's young grandson Yang Lian as the emperor, to rebuild the Great Sui court, himself as the left prime minister, and the word side by side king, and the emperor is young as the reason, the general leadership of the government.
Clear-eyed people know that Laihu'er and Wang Zhong are coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but there are no strong princes in the world who can compete with the king of Liaodong.
In the first year of the new year of the Great Sui Dynasty, Wang Zhong sent a letter of surrender to Li Shimin again, at this time, ninety percent of the world has been returned to the Liaodong Palace, only one place is Taiyuan, Wang Zhong has lost patience.
Seeing the general trend, Li Shimin still wanted to use his mantis arm as a car, so he even contacted the Turkic Shibi Khan, wanting to use the Turkic forces to resist Wang Zhong.
The last thing Wang Zhong wanted to happen still happened, Li Shimin embarked on the same path as Wu Sangui in the late Ming Dynasty, and let the foreign army enter the customs for his own selfishness.
Shibi Khan led an army of 500,000 to cross the Yellow River to Xiazhou, where he joined the remnants of Li Shimin's Taiyuan army and entered Taiyuan.
Laihu'er immediately sent troops in the name of the imperial court, with Wang Zhong as the commander, and led 400,000 soldiers to Taiyuan to fight to the death against the Turks.
At the same time, Laihu'er ordered Kou Zhong to delay the Turkic army for a month at all costs, waiting for Wang Zhong's reinforcements to arrive.
On the Taiyuan front, Kou Zhong's troops were less than 50,000!
With an army of 50,000 to resist the Turkic wolves riding 500,000, this is simply an impossible task!
As one of the sons of the plane of the Tang Dynasty, Kou Zhong finally proved his military genius to the world.
Within a month, Kou Zhong used the 50,000 soldiers in his hands to form a great wall of flesh and blood, and tried to block the 500,000 Turkic iron cavalry, doing everything he could, sneaking attacks and poisoning, feints to lure the enemy, psychological warfare, tunnel warfare, and street fighting.
Sun Tzu's art of war was used by Kou Zhong many times, and finally blocked the Turkic army, but less than 5,000 of his 50,000 soldiers died.
But even if his colleagues died tragically, Kou Zhong did not take a step back, and always took the lead in resisting the Turkic army on the front line.
It is also because of Kou Zhong's bravery that he will stimulate the ferocity of his soldiers, even if he fights to the point of a single soldier, he will not let the Turks penetrate deep into the Central Plains.
When Wang Zhong led an army of 400,000 to help, Kou Zhong had countless wounds all over his body, and his blood and qi were empty like a skeleton, but the whole person was like a sharp knife, and the knife intent was so strong that Wang Zhong thought that he had seen the second heavenly knife.
Kou Zhong's 50,000 troops were already less than 3,000, and everyone was wounded, but he didn't take a step back, this is of course the ferocity of the Liaodong soldiers, and there is also Kou Zhong, the commander, who would rather die than retreat, so that his soldiers can work with him.
Fortunately, Wang Zhong's army came in time, otherwise Kou Zhong and these 3,000 remnants could only die on the battlefield.
Under the city of Taiyuan, Wang Zhong's 400,000 troops were assembled, and ironically, the Turkic army of 500,000 was in the city.
For a long time, the war between the Central Plains and foreign tribes was the main attack of the Turkic cavalry, and the Central Plains side stuck to the city, but I didn't expect that this time it was diametrically opposite.