Chapter 178: Training the New Army, The Secret War Begins
The book continues from the above, saying that soon after Li Shimin's class returned to the dynasty, Xu Yuanlang was also killed due to defeat, and in the following months, Liu Heimin led the Turks to invade southward, and then swept through Hebei with a rapid momentum, and the Tang Dynasty who learned the news successively sent several groups of men and horses without success, but the loss of troops returned with a feather, just when everyone was looking forward to Li Yuan recovering Li Shimin again, the prince Li Jiancheng was bewitched by the prince to wash the horse Wei Zheng, and applied to personally lead the troops to quell the rebellion, and Li Jiancheng's move surprised everyone, so he led the army to leave Beijing after getting Li Yuan's permissionγ
From the top of the snowy city, Chu Mofeng stepped up the training of the new Tiance army, and on this day, Chu Mofeng rode alone to the Tiance army station, and saw from a distance that the blood-stained extinguishing flag was raised high in the camp.
Seeing this scene, Chu Mofeng frowned, his legs gently clamped the horse's belly, urging the treading wind to move forward, the treading wind was brought back by Chu Mofeng in 610 A.D., it has been twelve years, and the long-term battlefield rush has also made the treading wind fall into an injury, Chu Mofeng couldn't bear to continue to drive it to the battlefield again, so he left the treading wind in the mansion as a weekday ride.
Knowing that Chu Mofeng only had one mount to ride, Li Shimin was quite shocked in his heart, and now the powerful Duke of Qi Guogong, except for the two carriages given by the emperor, the rest of the ordinary means of transportation in the palace were only left with their own mounts, thinking of this, Li Shimin immediately sent someone to buy a horse from the Western Regions and give it to Chu Mofeng.
Thinking of the scene of Soma at the beginning, Chu Mofeng couldn't help but feel funny, that day Li Shimin came to the Guogong Mansion mysteriously, and without saying a word, he dragged Chu Mofeng out and walked out, at this time Chu Mofeng was playing with a few children, and was dragged by Li Shimin like this, and the whole person almost fell to the ground.
"You kid be lighter, what are you going to do?" After breaking free of Li Shimin, Chu Mofeng straightened his clothes, looked at Li Shimin angrily and said: "I said big brother, it's rare that you don't have to go out to fight, you just let me spend a few days at home to stop living!"
", it's like who dares to let your grandfather not stop. Taking the tea handed by Li Yuhu, Li Shimin said excitedly: "I bought a good horse a few days ago, and today I want to invite you to give me a palm." β
As soon as he heard that there was a good horse, Chu Mofeng suddenly became interested, and after bidding farewell to the ladies, he followed Li Shimin to a house in Dunhua Fang in the southeast of Chang'an, looking at this house without a house name, Chu Mofeng looked at Li Shimin with a cheap smile and said: "I said His Royal Highness King Qin, what are you doing in this Dunhua Fang in private? Is it possible to learn from the golden house Zangjiao?"
"I've found that when you're marching and fighting, your mind is absolutely bright, but at other times, your brain is like a bowl of sticky porridge. Looking at Chu Mofeng's sloppy appearance, Li Shimin glanced at him and said: "Several houses in Dunhua Fang have no owners, I just bought them to store some objects and horses that are inconvenient to bring into the palace, what are you kid thinking in his head? β
"Yes, if the princess had a bad relationship with you, she would not have given birth to that little guy like Tai'er. Chu Mofeng nodded and motioned for Li Shimin to lead him into the door.
Walking into this mansion, he vaguely heard the sound of horses roaring, following the source of the sound, Chu Mofeng left Li Shimin and ran over alone, and after entering the second courtyard, Chu Mofeng suddenly found that the surrounding courtyard was originally the location of the house, but at this moment it has become a stable, and there are many horses neatly raised in it.
Looking at the horses in the courtyard, Chu Mofeng laughed out loud, at this time Li Shimin walked in and said to Chu Mofeng: "Don't patronize your kid, these horses are mine, today I took you to see another horse, if you say the name, I will give it to you?"
"I said His Royal Highness King Qin, you are not afraid of the wind flashing your tongue. After listening to Li Shimin's words, Chu Mofeng said with confidence: "If you ask a person who has lived in Biansai since he was a child to identify horses, isn't this the same as asking a person who makes weapons to identify weapons?"
Li Shimin smiled when he saw this, and then pulled Chu Mofeng to the end of the second courtyard, only to see that a separate stable had been built here, and there was only a snow-white horse with a snow-white body and no half of a variegated horse at the moment, which was quietly eating the grass in the trough.
Seeing this, Chu Mofeng walked into the stable, circled around the horse, and then said to Li Shimin: "Say, how much did you buy this horse from those profiteers in the Western Regions?"
"Three thousand, I feel sorry for me, so a lot of money can help how many poor people. Hearing that Chu Mofeng casually said the origin of this horse, Li Shimin couldn't help but be a little surprised, and then asked, "How do you know that I bought it from the Western Regions?"
"The jade lion of the night, produced in the Western Regions, belongs to the best of the best, and is generally rare on the market. Am I right, His Royal Highness King Qin?" gently stroked the horse's back, and the supple mane gave people a comfortable feeling.
As if he had made some decision, Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I am willing to lose the bet, this horse is given to you." β
"Thanks, then I'm disrespectful. Hearing this, Chu Mofeng untied the reins, took the jade lion and walked out, and when he was about to walk to the door, he suddenly said: "Two thousand yuan, I will send someone to the palace for you later, and I can't let you break the bank." Then he led the horse out of the house, and one of them turned over and got on the horse's back, and rode away towards his mansion.
At this moment, Chu Mofeng came to the flagpole, and when the group saw Chu Mofeng coming, they hurriedly gathered and waited for Chu Mofeng's lecture. γ
After coldly glancing at the people in front of him, Chu Mofeng suddenly pulled out the burning sky behind him, and jerked it at the flagpole, only to hear a 'click', the flagpole fell to the ground in response, and the extinguishing flag also fell to the ground in an instant.
Slowly stepped forward to pick up the extinguishing flag and wipe off the dust on it, Chu Mofeng turned around and said coldly to everyone: "What do you think you are? β
Looking at the flagpole that was cut down, everyone present showed a complicated expression, and Chu Mofeng felt out a flag from his arms as if he hadn't seen it, and said slowly: "Find someone to repair the flagpole today, and start hanging this flag in the camp tomorrow, when it is qualified, when will this flag be lowered again." β
After speaking, Chu Mofeng threw the flag on the ground, and as the flag slowly unfolded as it landed, everyone looked at it intently, only to see a bright red word 'weak' printed on the flag. Looking at the eye-catching word 'weak' in front of him, some of the people present couldn't help but shout loudly: "Grandpa Guo, we are not convinced, why can the last batch of Tiance troops hang the flag of extinguishing the word?
Seeing this scene, Chu Mofeng sneered and said, "You all think that you are very strong, don't you? You have only been in the military camp for less than a month, and you are already arrogant to such an extent? In my opinion, you are not even worthy of this weak word." β
After speaking, he pointed to a few indignant people in the crowd and said: "Don't be unconvinced, so let's give you a chance, you thousand, choose ten people to fight against me, if you win, from today onwards you will personally carry the flag for you, if you lose......"
Speaking of this, Chu Mofeng smiled weirdly: "If you lose, give me training in a proper manner, and don't let me hear any more doubts, how about it?"
A sentence instantly ignited the anger of everyone present, and then Chu Mofeng urged the horse to the side, pulled out the burning sky behind him and threw it to the ground, only to see the burning sky pierce the hard frozen soil and submerge more than half of the ground, and then Chu Mofeng took off the dagger on his waist and the dart bag behind his back, and put it aside.
After doing all this, Chu Mofeng came to the weapon rack, casually took out a spear wrapped in the head of the spear, danced a few times at will, turned to the people present and said, "Come on, allow you to wear all the helmets and the whole family, I will not do anything." β
At this time, ten representatives had already been elected in the crowd, Chu Mofeng took a closer look, two maces, three spears, three sword and shield hands and two archers, this is a reasonable configuration of a regular team, it seems that this group of recruit boys has learned something.
I saw that these ten soldiers were also holding weapons for protection, and they clenched their fists at Chu Mofeng and said, "Grandpa Guo has offended." Then the rest of the people scattered around the camp, leaving an open space in the middle for the two sides of the competition, and then the two sides quickly retreated to open the distance, Chu Mofeng snorted coldly when he saw this, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and rushed forward.
Seeing that Chu Mofeng began to charge, two soldiers armed with maces also took advantage of the situation to charge, and the remaining people behind him were caught off guard and had to rush up.
When the two leaders were about to rush in front of him, Chu Mofeng laughed fiercely, and the spear in his hand was raised flat and pushed forward, and the spear flew towards the two leaders with a strong thrust.
Seeing the spears flying horizontally, the two of them had to hurriedly fall down to see how they could block the attack. Then the two of them saw a flower in front of them, and they only felt a force coming from the armor on their chests, and the whole person flew up.
It turned out that after Chu Mofeng Ping launched the spear, the two of them hurriedly blocked the spear and caused the spear to receive a rebound force, and instantly flew back into Chu Mofeng's hand, and at this time, the two of them were about to take the move, Chu Mofeng immediately clenched the spear again, and knocked it on the opponent's chest with a horizontal push, knocking the two out of the air.
Then Chu Mofeng didn't pay attention to where the person would fly, but looked at the three pikemen who rushed to kill, the spear in his hand first stabbed at the pikeman on the left, and after being blocked, he flicked the waist of the soldier in the middle with the power of the block, instantly pumping this person away, and then quickly retreated the spear and then quickly stabbed out, stabbing at the chest of the soldier on the right.
Seeing that the spear had arrived, the soldier on the right suddenly turned the spear in his hand upside down, and stuck it in front of him with a hard thrust on the ground, in a vain attempt to learn from the leopard head Lin Chong in the Three Kingdoms period when he fought against Hu Sanniang when he beat Zhujiazhuang, and the spear pestle clenched the handle of the spear three times left and right to block the opponent's three attacks.
However, this person is not the first good man in Liangshan, Lin Chong, who learned from the cat and the tiger, and did block Chu Mofeng's blow in the first stroke, but the hand holding the handle of the gun suddenly slipped, and the handle of the gun slammed into his face with the power of rebound, and he was pulled off the horse.
Seeing this, Chu Mofeng was stunned at first, then smiled slightly, and the spear threw a half-arc behind his back, stabbing out instantly in the posture of holding the gun in his left hand, and instantly hit him in the chest when he was stunned.
At this time, the three sword and shield soldiers had already been killed, and the three wooden knives were raised high and slashed at the top of Chu Mofeng's head, Chu Mofeng saw that the spear held the three long knives horizontally, and pushed it upward, and pushed the arms of the three people holding the knife above their heads, and then turned the spear in his hand upside down and inserted it on the ground, stepped on the stirrup with both feet, and kicked the whole person with the spear as the axis against the three people who opened the empty door.
Listening to the three muffled sounds of 'bang bang bang', Chu Mofeng kicked the shields of the three people three times in a row, but the strength was greater than the three of them, and the three of them were kicked away, and when Chu Mofeng fell back on the horse, he only heard the two sounds of 'bang bang', Chu Mofeng didn't think about a backward lying on the horse's back, only to see two arrow shafts about to fly in front of him, Chu Mofeng copied the two arrow shafts left and right with both hands, grabbed the two arrow shafts in his hands, and then threw them at the two archers, and the whole person grabbed the spear and rushed towards the two.
In the process of charging, only a 'click' was heard, and the two archers who were still leaning back to dodge couldn't help but be surprised in their hearts, not knowing what this sound meant, and only when they straightened up did they find that Chu Mofeng had rushed to the front of him, holding half of the spear in each hand, and the broken stubble was worthy of the throats of the two.
Then I heard Chu Mofeng say coldly: "You lost." After speaking, he threw the robbery in his hand to the ground, rode back to the position where he had put his weapons on hold, equipped his weapons one by one, and then turned around and looked at everyone coldly.
At this time, there was silence on the field, only the cold wind of winter blew from time to time, looking at the eight companions who fell to the ground on the field, the two archers threw the longbow in their hands to the ground in a dejected manner, and said to Chu Mofeng: "Everyone in the world praises the martial arts of Grandpa Guo, and when I saw it today, it really deserved its name, and my subordinates admired it." β
And the people watching the battle on the sidelines have already grown their mouths, looking at the scene in front of them with an incredible expression, if a person says that one enemy two or one enemy three, this is still said in the past, but by oneself to break through the team of ten people, this may not be something ordinary people can do.
Seeing that everyone still had a look of disbelief, Chu Mofeng sneered and said: "The original Tiance, the same ten-person team, with the same configuration as yours, was defeated after three rounds under me, but you couldn't withstand a single charge from me. β
After speaking, Chu Mofeng straightened out his slightly messy clothes, and said to everyone: "Since you lose, then you are willing to gamble and lose, the real elite soldiers and strong generals are not spoken, they are trained by training, since you want to hang the extinguishing flag, show me something, now, everyone runs around Chang'an City, run until sunset, speed up." β
Hearing this, everyone got up and lined up in a neat line and began to run outside the city, looking at the figures of everyone leaving, Chu Mofeng smiled and said: "A group of raw melon oilseeds, if you don't practice well, you really can't give a deal to Xiao Lizi." After saying that, he urged the wind to walk towards his mansion.
On the second day, Chu Mofeng and Li Shimin went to court, and Li Yuan was still sulking at Dou Jiande's old ministry for repeatedly rebelling.
Looking at Li Shimin in front of him, Li Yuan said with some anger: "You shouldn't have let go of all the 50,000 Xia army captives in the first place, but you should have killed them all overnight like Cao Cao and Bai Qi!"
Then Li Yuan said as if talking to himself: "In order to prevent trouble before it happens, I will issue an edict to tell the prince that after he wins, all the men over the age of fifteen in Shandong will be killed, and all the young men and women will be driven over to fill Guanzhong!"
Looking at his father, who was almost out of shape and crazy in front of him, Li Shimin realized that with the evolution of time, his father was no longer the diligent emperor who was in charge of everything.
At this time, he relied too much on the minister to deal with specific things, and his focus was always on the inner palace.
For many military plans, he is no longer like when he started the army, studying with himself and Chu Mofeng all night, and now he is used to being arbitrary, and then his mistakes gradually increase, and sometimes it even makes people feel inconsequential.
At the beginning of the army, the father and emperor always followed the strategy of forgiving others and buying the hearts of the people as the ruling strategy, I don't know if it was because of the cruel war that the people's minds were mutated, he once ordered the massacre of the Western Qin army just like Xue Ju and Xue Rengao slaughtered the prisoners of the Tang army, but fortunately Chu Mofeng was blocked back by a sentence that the foreign monarch's order was not accepted.
At the most critical moment when Liu Wuzhou's army marched south, he unjustly killed Liu Wenjing, the hero of the Taiyuan Uprising.
Liu Shirang, who saved his life in Pusaka, was heavily rewarded by him at that time, he named Liu Shirang as the prince of Hongnong County, gave him 100 acres of land, millions of money, and appointed him as the acting governor of the state. Who knew that with a counter-plot, Li Yuan actually issued an edict to kill his life-saving benefactor Liu Shirang, and confiscated his wife and children as slaves.
General Li Zhongwen made great achievements in defending the Xihe, and when Li Shimin evacuated, he stayed in Taiyuan as the governor of Bingzhou, and was also recalled to Chang'an by Li Yuan for the same reason as Liu Shirang and killed.
And the hero Sheng Yanshi, who attacked and killed Li Mi, fell into the hands of Xu Yuanlang, and swore not to surrender to the death and was admired by Xu Yuanlang and was able to save his life; later, after he fled back, his father suspected that he had not fulfilled the courtier's festival, and found a reason to kill him.
And the grievances and disputes between himself and the eldest brother and the fourth brother were not also caused by the inaction and indecision of the father?
Thinking of this, Li Shimin glanced at Chu Mofeng helplessly, and from his eyes, Li Shimin saw a hint of a different meaning, only to see Chu Mofeng nodding lightly, and then Li Shimin stepped forward and said to Li Yuan: " If we let the prince kill all the men in Shandong at this time, not only will not achieve the goal of serving the public, but will be used by people with a heart to make a fuss, thus provoking a greater rebellion. β
After listening to Li Shimin's words, Li Yuan suddenly turned his head to Chu Mofeng and said, "Mofeng, what do you think of this matter?"
"I wonder if Your Majesty still remembers the original intention of our army?" Chu Mofeng looked at Li Yuan and asked with some disappointment.
"I have never forgotten this, in order to overthrow the rule of the Sui Dynasty and create a real peaceful and prosperous era for the people of the world. I saw that Li Yuan seemed to recall something, his eyes gradually glowed, and he said in a firm tone.
"Since it is to overthrow the rule of the Sui Dynasty, what is the difference between what Your Majesty is going to do at this time and the Emperor Yang Guang?" All the ministers in the court knew that Chu Mofeng would never be flattering with those whiskers, and he never thought that this sentence would hit Li Yuan's heart like a thunderbolt.
After carefully thinking about his state of Fang Cai, Li Yuan realized that Fang Cai was indeed like a tyrant, and then smiled at Chu Mofeng and said: "Qi Guogong's words are reasonable, Fang Cai is out of shape, in this case, I have the virtue of a good life in heaven, and I am mainly lenient to the people in the land of rebellion. β
Hearing that Li Yuan finally stopped the wanton slaughter, Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng breathed a sigh of relief.
On the other hand, as Li Jiancheng continued to advance on the battlefield, on the third day of the first month of the spring of the sixth year of Wude, Liu Heimin, who had gone to the general trend, fled to Raoyang, and only more than 100 people followed, knowing that Liu Heimin was coming, Zhuge Dewei went out of the city to greet him, and invited him to rest in the city, Liu Heimin refused to agree, Zhuge Dewei asked again and again with tears, Liu Heimin reluctantly accepted, but only dared to go to the middle of the market next to the city wall to rest for a while.
Zhuge Dewei smiled bitterly when he saw this, and then ordered someone to bring food, who knew that Liu Heimin and others had just eaten half of it, and they were arrested by Zhuge Dewei's soldiers.
It turned out that Zhuge Dewei had already secretly surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. Liu Heimin was escorted to Li Jiancheng and beheaded in Zhaozhou along with his younger brother Liu Shishan.
Before his execution, Liu Heimin sighed: "I was weeding vegetables at home, but I was harmed like this by Gao Yaxian's gang!" At this point, all the rebellions launched by Liu Heimin were put down.
And Li Shimin, who had been waiting for Li Jiancheng's defeat, came forward to turn the tide again, after hearing the news that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had exterminated Liu Heimin, he hurriedly ran to Chu Mofeng's house to ask for advice, who knew that Chu Mofeng just smiled and said: "Is this world only allowed for you King Qin to have the guidance of a master, and not for him to have a villain to support him? You don't have to panic, there are Turkic dogs to fight next, let's come to Japan for a long time." β
With Li Jing and others quelling the rebellion in the south, the Central Plains completely entered the era of great unification, and there was only one foreign enemy in the entire Tang Dynasty at the moment--- Turkic.
At this time, it was the seventh year of Wude, within the Tang Dynasty, the capital Chang'an, and after the world was pacified, the contradictions between the prince and the king of Qin were gradually revealed, and evolved into long-term and violent conflicts, and wars without gunpowder were quietly staged......
As the saying goes, you sing and we appear, and watch the smoke and rain in Xijing rise one after another, and the sword flowers in the eastern capital wither and scatter, I want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......