Chapter 177: Pacifying Shandong and Embarking on a Journey Again
The book continues from the above, saying that since Li Yuan enabled Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng to go out to quell the rebellion, the balance of victory gradually tilted towards the lobby side, and as the cities were conquered and the generals surrendered one by one, Liu Heimin had already lost his patience and became more and more irritable.
But there are unforeseen circumstances, just when Li Shimin sent Wang Junkuo to stick to the water, Liu Heimin took advantage of the army to fight outside, and made a move to repair the plank road to darken Chen Cang, leading the army to attack the water, Li Shimin's side hurriedly met the battle, resulting in Wang Junkuo being trapped in the water, and the three successive impacts failed to repel the enemy.
Chu Mofeng, who learned the news, was furious in court, and sneaked into Luoshui City overnight to bring back Luo Shixin's body, and then Datang hung out a war-free card to hold a funeral for Luo Shixin.
At this time, the whole barracks was covered in silver, the lanterns covered with white paper were glowing with a mournful light, a coffin was placed in the center of the barracks meeting hall, and in front of him was a tablet enshrined in Luo Shixin, two candles as thick as children's arms were burning vigorously, and the incense in the incense burner was curling in the hall.
The Tang Dynasty soldiers led by Li Shimin all wore white belts around their waists, and there was not a trace of crying in the hall, but everyone was very sad in their hearts, and Li Qufu, who had returned to the water, and Wang Junkuo, who had broken through, knelt in front of Luo Shixin's spirit at this moment, and kept kowtowing, and behind him were a group of soldiers who broke out with Wang Junkuo and Li Qufu.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Shimin, who has always been good at moving people's hearts with words, didn't know what to say at the moment.
Since the second year of Wude, Luo Shixin has been under the command of Li Shimin, and Luo Shixin, who was twenty-one years old at the time, was deeply loved by Chu Mofeng because of his combat bravery, and Chu Mofeng has been preparing to gradually turn the existing Tiance Army into the shadows since then, and reorganize the new Tiance Army for Li Shimin, and the leaders of the Tiance Army also have candidates: Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin, Luo Shixin, Luo Cheng.
originally wanted to plan this plan slowly, so Chu Mofeng repeatedly hinted that Li Shimin cultivated Luo Shixin, and Luo Shixin really lived up to expectations, stabbing Wang Xuanying, outwitting Qianjin Castle, and pacifying Luoyang City. Almost every battle has been impressive.
Originally, after Chu Mofeng was ready to pacify Liu Heimin, he began to form a new army for Tiance Mansion, but God did not fulfill people's wishes, and Luo Shixin was killed, which made Chu Mofeng very angry.
With the endless stream of people who came to pay respects, the sad atmosphere in the hall suddenly increased dramatically, Chu Mofeng secretly wiped a handful of tears, walked out of the hall, and walked towards his camp.
Back in the camp, Chu Mofeng suddenly found that all the four commanders under his command were here, and he couldn't help but ask with some surprise in his heart: "Why are the four of you here?"
As soon as the words fell, the four of them knelt down in unison and said, "Marshal, it was the subordinates who died in battle due to their ineffective fighting, so you can punish us." ”
Chu Mofeng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then helped the four of them up in turn and said: "Get up for me, if there is a mistake, it is also a mistake in my command, you just acted according to my command." ”
The four of them were helped up by Chu Mofeng one after another, and hurriedly said: "Dashuai, don't be like this, if you think like this, then your subordinates will blame themselves even more." ”
Looking at his henchmen and favorite generals, Chu Mofeng sighed and said slowly: "Hey, I found a problem in the process of this attack, that is, our attack method is too simple, if we don't try to change, when we fight the Turks in the future, with the Turks' riding and archery ability, we will inevitably become targets." ”
At this time, Zhao Xin and the others listened to Chu Mofeng's words, and they all showed puzzled expressions, Chu Mofeng said with a smile when he saw this: "In this way, I'll think about it first, and see if we can make some adjustments to our offensive methods on the existing model, and after we have a detailed plan later, let's take a closer look at it together." ”
Hearing this, the four of them hurriedly responded, and then retreated in unison, while Chu Mofeng took out a piece of paper from the desk, picked up the pen and began to write something on it.
On the 29th of Xinsi, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, led a large army to avenge Luo Shixin, and attacked again and again to finally conquer the water. After entering the city, Li Shimin quickly pacified the local people, and under the guidance of the people, captured some of Liu Heimin's subordinates lurking in the city, and then beheaded him on the street to set an example.
Subsequently, Li Shimin, in accordance with Luo Shixin's wishes, sent a large team of men and horses to escort Luo Shixin's coffin back to Luoyang and buried it next to Pei Renji's tomb in Beibi Mountain.
In March, Li Shimin and Li Yi set up camp south of Lishui, and Ling sent part of the main force to be stationed north of Lishui, forming horns against each other to face Liu Heimin.
After learning the news, Liu Heimin came to challenge many times, Li Shimin wanted to go out of the camp to fight, but Chu Mofeng strictly forbade the army to go out of the city at will, so Li Shimin had to order the wall not to come out.
Seeing that Li Shimin's army had never flinched, Liu Heimin subconsciously thought that his consecutive victories had made the Tang soldiers feel afraid, and gradually relaxed their vigilance at the moment.
On the 11th of Renchen (11th), Liu Heimin appointed Gao Yaxian as the left servant, and a grand banquet was held in the army, and the bonfire was bright and visible dozens of miles away, and the scout in charge of the investigation quickly reported to Li Shimin after learning the news.
Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng discussed it, and both thought that this was a godsend, so they immediately sent Li Shiyun to lead his troops to approach Liu Heimin's military camp, intending to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to rush and kill.
A war drum sounded, Li Shiyun took the lead with a spear high, and rode into Liu Heimin's camp, at this moment the soldiers in the camp were the most lax when they were full of wine and food, and they were rushed by Li Shiyun with people, and they immediately panicked, because the soldiers drank too much, and even effective defense could not be organized at this time.
With Li Shiyun's rush to kill, Liu Heimin's camp suddenly set off a bloody storm, a shot stabbed to death a soldier who stumbled forward to block it, and the sharp-eyed Li Shiyun suddenly saw a drunk man with a spear in front of him, this person was Gao Yaxian who was only named the left servant shooting.
As the saying goes, enemies are very red when they see each other, and I saw Li Shiyun shouting: "Go with Lao Tzu and slaughter Gao Yaxian." The pro-soldiers who followed behind them waved their respective weapons one after another, and followed Li Shiyun to kill in the direction of Gao Yaxian.
Gao Yaxian was already drunk at this time, and his blurry eyes saw a man in silver armor rushing towards him, and immediately shouted, turned over his mount, and prepared to go to fight against this person, who knew that Li Shiyun suddenly turned his horse's head and led the army to run outside the camp.
The good banquet was disturbed by Li Shixian, Gao Yaxian was suddenly furious, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and he went to chase Li Shiyun single-handedly.
The two of you chased me all the way forward, but they didn't know that Li Shixian had already led Gao Yaxian out of the camp, and seeing that he couldn't catch up with the silver figure in front of him, Gao Yaxian couldn't help but be angry, and shouted at Li Shixian: "The thief in front, you have the ability to stop Lao Tzu." ”
Hearing Gao Yaxian's shout, Li Shixian, who was galloping wildly, suddenly smiled strangely, quickly turned the horse's head and rushed towards Gao Yaxian with his own soldiers, and when the two were about to meet, Li Shixian's spear in his hand was the first to stab out, stabbing Gao Yaxian's heart.
Seeing this, Gao Yaxian suddenly felt a thrill, and the strong sense of alcohol also subsided a lot, and hurriedly raised his gun to block, who knew that Li Shixian's move was just a false move, after being blocked by Gao Yaxian, he quickly rode his horse and brushed Gao Yaxian's side, and the real killing move was from Li Shi's subordinate general Pan Mao.
I saw Pan Mao holding a spear, and when Li Shiyun flashed to reveal Gao Yaxian, the spear in his hand was like a dragon going out to sea, stabbing Gao Yaxian's ribs from bottom to top, and immediately pierced Gao Yaxian, and then Pan Mao castrated unabated, and continued to rush out with a spear with one arm, and then shook the spear in his hand vigorously, throwing Gao Yaxian to the ground like a broken sack.
At this time, Li Shixian had already turned around, wanting to take advantage of the situation to give Gao Yaxian another shot, but Gao Yaxian's entourage arrived one after another, desperately snatching back Gao Yaxian, whose life and death were unknown, and then helped Gao Yaxian return to the camp under the cover of a rain of arrows. I wanted to let the doctor who accompanied the army treat him, but who knew that Gao Yaxian would die completely before he arrived at the camp.
Knowing Gao Yaxian's death, Li Shimin's side celebrated with a crown, and then advanced again on the first day of the first day (13th) to approach Liu Heimin's camp, Gao Yaxian's entourage had already killed Gao Yaxian's people to Wang Xiaohu to describe it, and when the two armies were facing each other, Wang Xiaohu took advantage of the chaos to capture Pan Mao.
Subsequently, Liu Heimin transported grain and grass from Hebei, Bei, Cang, and Ying prefectures by land and water, in order to alleviate the crisis of the army's food shortage, but the large number of vehicles and ships in each state had been discovered by Li Shimin's scouts, and then Li Shimin ordered Cheng Mingzhen to lead more than 1,000 people to intercept, Cheng Mingzhen used the waterway to attack at the same time, on the one hand, he sank the grain ship, on the other hand, he burned the grain truck, and Liu Heimin, who learned the news, fainted angrily on the spot.
Annoyed and angry, Liu Heimin was silent for a few days, and suddenly led the army to attack Li Shimin's military camp, Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng led the Tiance army to storm the enemy's back, in order to be able to rescue Li Shimin, but was surrounded by Liu Heimin's army.
After a rush to no avail, seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, suddenly a burst of people behind the enemy suddenly turned on their backs, it turned out that after Wei Chi Jingde learned the news, he personally led hundreds of strong men to break through the siege, Li Shimin saw this and hurriedly greeted Chu Mofeng and his cousin Li Daozong to take advantage of the situation to highlight the encirclement, and Liu Heimin's army saw that Li Shimin and others had successfully broken through, and hurriedly went to pursue, but was blocked by Chu Mofeng's Tiangong battalion with an indiscriminate covering arrow rain.
At this time, Li Shimin and Liu Heimin held each other for more than 60 days, and Li Shimin estimated that Liu Heimin's grain was about to run out and he would definitely come to seek a decisive battle with the Tang army, so he sent people to build a dam upstream. Then he instructed the officer guarding the levee: "When the army engages the enemy and sends messengers, you will immediately tear the levee open." ”
On the 26th of Ding Weiri, Liu Heimin, who had run out of grain and grass, really led 20,000 infantry and cavalry to cross the water to the south and approached the Tang army camp to line up.
Seeing that Liu Heimin led the army to attack, Chu Mofeng deliberately ordered Li Shimin to delay the battle time until the end of the soldiers' meal at noon, and then personally led the Tiance army, together with 5,000 elite cavalry to attack Liu Heimin's cavalry.
When it comes to cavalry battles, since Chu Mofeng established the Tiance Army, he has almost never tasted defeat, and he has been a little light on the enemy, plus since the morning expedition has not entered the water and rice, where is Liu Heimin's cavalry the opponent of the Tang cavalry.
In this battle, Chu Mofeng changed the way of attack, taking the double cavalry of the Heavenly Killing Battalion as a group, dragging the heavy mace tied to the rope to impact the enemy's cavalry formation, thus greatly reducing the collision caused by the bow and arrow covering the opponent's cavalry falling to the ground, and then the Heavenly Spear Battalion expanded the results along the flank, and the Heavenly Shield Battalion changed to a long knife and round shield to harvest the remaining lives, and the Heavenly Bow Battalion was replaced with crossbow arrows to check and fill in the gaps, and a new offensive method killed Liu Heimin's cavalry and turned over on his back.
Seeing this, Chu Mofeng took advantage of the victory and trampled on Liu Yi's infantry with horses, Liu Heimin led the troops to fight to the death, a battle was killed from noon to dusk, the two sides clashed several times, and changed people several times, and gradually Liu Heimin's troops could no longer hold on.
Seeing that the general trend had gone, Wang Xiaohu said to Liu Heimin: "Our intellectual and physical strength has been exhausted, and we should flee quickly." After getting Liu Heimin's acquiescence, the two took advantage of the chaos to flee first, and the rest of the soldiers did not know that the leader had fled, and they still continued to resist the offensive of the Tang Dynasty.
At this time, Li Shimin saw that the time was ripe, so he first threw out a rattle to signal the army to retreat gradually, and then sent someone to inform the officials in charge of guarding the embankment to break the embankment, and in an instant, water poured into the battlefield.
The water on the battlefield was more than a foot deep, and it was suddenly washed by the big water, Liu Heimin's army was suddenly defeated, more than 10,000 people were killed, thousands of people were drowned, Liu Heimin and Fan Yuan and other 200 people fled into the Turks on horseback.
After the battle, Li Shimin announced that Hebei was all pacified, and after the news was transmitted back to Chang'an, Li Yuan applauded one after another in the court, and the court was full of praise for Li Shimin and others, which made Li Jiancheng anxious, and after returning to the East Palace, he was angry several times in succession, which provoked a group of servants to be cautious, for fear that they would not do well to provoke this so-called prince.
After solving Liu Heimin, Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng set their eyes on Xu Yuanlang, who was still raging, and just as Li Shimin was about to lead the army to fight against Xu Yuanlang, the imperial court suddenly sent a decree to quickly summon Li Shimin, the king of Qin, to return to Beijing to face the saint.
Li Shimin, who learned the news, temporarily handed over the army to Chu Mofeng and Li Yuanji, and he hurried back to the capital in a post carriage.
After meeting Li Yuan, Li Shimin gave a detailed account of the situation of attacking Xu Yuanlang, and after listening to Li Shimin's statement, Li Yuan hurriedly sent him to Liyang, and rushed to Jiyin with the army.
However, on the 21st of Renshen, a piece of bad news came from the north that Li Daen, the governor of the Tang Dynasty, was killed by the Turks.
It turned out that before, Li Daen had written a chapter to explain that the Turks were famine, and they could take advantage of the situation to capture Mayi, so Li Yuan ordered Dugu Sheng, the young eunuch in the palace, to lead troops to attack Yuan Junzhang with Li Daen.
The two agreed to meet in Mayi in February, but Dugu Sheng did not arrive on time for some reason, and after thinking about it for a long time, Li Daen decided that he could not advance alone, and then stopped the army in Xincheng.
Unexpectedly, the Turkic Jieli Khan sent tens of thousands of cavalry to surround Li Daen with Liu Heimin, and Li Yuanzhi quickly sent Li Gaoqian, the general of the Right Xiaowei, to rescue Li Daen. However, before Li Gaoqian arrived, Li Daen fled in the middle of the night because the army ran out of food, and was killed by the defeat of the Turkic interception army.
Upon learning of Li Daen's death, Li Yuan was extremely sad, and in a fit of rage, he convicted Dugu Sheng, sentenced him to death reduction, and exiled him to a remote area.
However, the Turks frequently attacked the border at this time, Li Shimin was anxious when he saw this, so he increased the offensive against Xu Yuanlang, and on the fifth day of the seventh month (the fifth day of the first month), the Tang Dynasty built Hongyi Palace for Li Shimin, the king of Qin, for Li Shimin to live.
At this time, Li Shimin attacked Xu Yuanlang and had already captured more than a dozen cities, which shook the Huaishui and Surabaya regions. This made Du Fuwei, who was in the land east of the Huainan River, very frightened, so he wrote a letter to ask to enter the court. Li Shimin was largely pacified between Huai and Ji, so he left Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, Ren Bi, the head of the march, and Li Shichang to attack Xu Yuanlang.
On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng set off to return to Chang'an, and when they learned that they were about to fight against the Turks, Chu Mofeng had a faint bloodthirsty impulse in his heart.
Shortly after Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng embarked on the return journey, Xu Yuanlang had to abandon the city and flee at night because of the successive attacks of the Tang Dynasty, and then was killed by the local villagers, so that all his territory was pacified by the Tang army.
After Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng returned to Chang'an, they first entered the palace to report the recent battle situation to Li Yuan, and then under Chu Mofeng's strong request, Li Yuan agreed to Chu Mofeng's plan to reorganize the Tiance army.
Then Chu Mofeng personally went to the camp of the Tiance Army, told his plan to the four commanders, and learned that he would be dismissed and secretly carry out other tasks, and no one in the four hundred Tiance Army spoke out against it, in their opinion, Chu Mofeng's words were holy decrees.
Immediately, the Tiance army was dismissed, and these people did not return to their hometowns, but left Chang'an in batches under the instruction of Chu Mofeng, accompanied by their own mounts and weapons and armor.
After the original Tiance army left Chang'an, Chu Mofeng set out to form a new Tiance army for Li Shimin, and the number of people was expanded to the scale of 1,000 people, when the initial recruitment was made, there were as many as 3,000 people who came to sign up, everyone knew that in the entire army of the Tang Dynasty, except for the forbidden army in the palace, only the Tiance army was treated the best.
With Chu Mofeng's death training method, there were people leaving in tears in the training ground every day, and with the continuous reduction of personnel, in the end, Chu Mofeng kept the size of the Tiance Army at 1,000 people.
Looking at the thousand people in front of him, Chu Mofeng coughed lightly and said: "Here, don't think about excelling with your personal martial arts, here is a place that pays attention to unity and cooperation, if anyone has any ideas, you can leave the gate over there, I only ask for obedience here, absolute obedience." ”
Everyone knows that this thin young man in front of him is the founder of the Tiance Army, and it is this person who led the previous generation of Tiance Army to follow His Royal Highness the King of Qin to open up the territory and win one victory after another for the Tang Dynasty.
And just when Chu Mofeng was training recruits, Zhangye County, far away under the Qilian Mountains, ushered in nearly 400 heavily armed cavalrymen one after another, and they were received by a middle-aged man with a majestic figure, and everyone felt a murderous aura suppressed for a long time in this person.
I saw the middle-aged man say aloud to everyone: "Since the Chu boy has handed you over to me, then from today onwards, the six of us will conduct a series of training for you until you are qualified." ”
Just when everyone was confused, a voice like a silver bell suddenly came from overhead, and I heard this voice like a heavenly voice say slowly: "I said boss, what is this kid Mo Feng doing with so many soldiers? ”
Everyone looked up and saw a woman in Tsing Yi standing on one foot on the treetops with a sword, looking at the people below with interest.
At the same time that these cavalry arrived in Zhangye, Liu Heimin borrowed thousands of cavalry from Jieli Khan, and returned to Hebei and Shandong. And his old generals Cao Zhan and Dong Kangmai had fled to the people to hide, and when they saw Liu Heimin returning to the Central Plains, they raised troops to respond.
Tang Emperor Li Yuan sent Li Daoxuan, the king of Huaiyang, and Shi Wanbao, the governor, to lead an army of 30,000 to conquer, and the Tang army and Liu Heimin's army fought against each other in Xiabo, but they fell into a heavy siege, Li Daoxuan was killed, and Shi Wanbao fled back with a light horse. Immediately the states of Hebei rebelled one after another, and in less than half a month, Liu Heimin recovered the old land and rebuilt the capital in Zhaozhou.
In a fit of rage, Li Yuan sent Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, to lead the army to suppress him, but who knew that Li Yuanji was afraid of the enemy like a tiger and could not advance. At this time, everyone thought that Li Yuan would regain Li Shimin, who was idle in Chang'an, but who knew that the crown prince Li Jiancheng suddenly took the initiative to ask for help, this move couldn't help but surprise Li Yuan, and even those who were watching were puzzled.
As everyone knows, Li Jiancheng desperately asked Wei Zheng for advice during the period when Li Shimin went on the expedition, and learned that Li Yuanji lost the expedition, originally Li Jiancheng didn't care about it, under normal circumstances, if the army lost, it was basically Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng who came forward to deal with the aftermath, who knew that at this time Wei Zheng persuaded himself to recommend himself to lead the army.
"Your Highness only became the crown prince because you were the eldest son, and in the past, you rarely led the army into battle, so naturally you did not have many achievements, and you were kind to people, but you did not let the whole country know about it. Wei Zheng looked at Li Jiancheng, and said with reason: "At this time, King Qin's achievements cover the world, and China and foreign countries return to their hearts, and in the long run, the world will not remember Your Highness, but will only remember King Qin." Now Liu Heimin is only led by the remnants of the defeated army, the elite main force does not exceed 10,000, as long as His Royal Highness is willing to fight hard, Liu Heimin will definitely be eliminated, plus Qi Guogong has just dismantled the Tiance Army, Li Shimin does not have many troops in his hands, so the old minister concluded that Qi Guogong will definitely not let Li Shimin go on the expedition, so Your Highness, you had better go out in person to establish a meritorious career and establish a reputation, and take advantage of the situation to cultivate strength and make friends with Shandong heroes. ”
After listening to Wei Zheng's sincere words, Li Jiancheng was convinced, and asked his father to lead the army to the east. Li Yuan was moved by the prince's enterprising spirit and readily agreed.
On November 7, the fifth winter of Wude, the crown prince Li Jiancheng led his army to the Hebei front. Those that used to be within Li Shimin's authority are now under Li Jiancheng's control, and Li Jiancheng has also been granted the privilege of making decisions on the spot without asking for instructions.
Looking at Li Jiancheng, who led the army to the expedition, Chu Mofeng stood on the city wall and couldn't help but let out a sneer, stupid, of course I won't let King Qin go on the expedition now, after all, there are still many important things to do, and when the big things are decided, how exciting it is to kill Turkic dogs all the way to the north, thinking of this, Chu Mofeng turned around and got off the city wall, and behind him were snowflakes flying all over the sky......
Let's watch Chu Mofeng train the new heavenly strategy, Li Shimin has been reprimanded repeatedly, I want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......