Piao Tianzi    Chapter 577 Wang Zheng Weiwu

Li Shimin said anxiously, "Father, due to the heavy wind and snow, it is difficult to transport grass during this period, and the army has only been stored for half a month. The retreat route of grain in the rear has been intercepted, and our army is in danger. Either, fight back and forth, the Jianghuai army in the rear is ignored, and attacked Yang Hing, and the battle is fast. Or, while the news has not spread among the army, we quietly set up camp tonight, turn back to Jiangjun, take advantage of the new arrival of the Jianghuai army, defeat the Jianghuai army in one fell swoop, seize Jishan, and ping the two cities, and fight the grain route and retreat with Taiyuan."

Li Yuan sat on the ground and sighed, "I have seen Wang Xuanying, the eldest son of Wang Shichong, several times before. Although it seems like a talent, it is actually just a gold and jade, and it is a decay. Such a person is not afraid of leading troops. In the past month, Wang Xuanying has been in Hanoi County for more than a month. But recently, he suddenly opened up the Taihang Mountain Zangguan Pass and went deep into Jiang County in one fell swoop, and cut off my way back. This move is very cruel and the time to pick it up. My father doesn't believe that Wang Xuanying has such a skill and can grasp it so well. My father suspected that Wang Shichong had arrived in Jiang County and took over the command of the Jianghuai Army. He also suspected that this time the Jianghuai Army entered Jiang County must have more than 20,000 people who first entered Hanoi County. Wang Shichong was not kind!"

As soon as he heard that it was Wang Shichong himself who cut off their return, Li Shimin's face turned completely dark.

During the last Taiyuan battle, the Li family played Wang Shichong once. They first joined forces with the Wang family and defeated the Guanzhong Army and Yang Han Army, but in the end they immediately pointed their finger at Wang Shichong. However, Wang Shichong was very cunning that time, and was prepared for it. He sent a substitute to Taiyuan City, but he stayed in the military camp.

That time, the Li family killed only one of Wang Shichong's substitutes. Li Shimin entered the Jianghuai Army camp and was ambushed by Wang Shichong, and suffered a considerable loss. Now that he heard that Wang Shichong had arrived in person and cut off his retreat, a trace of panic flashed through his heart.

"If you can't retreat, then move forward! Father, don't hesitate anymore, let's cross the river!" Li Shimin didn't want to sit and wait for death.

Li Yuan waved his hand, and the words he said before, "The time has not come, we still have to wait."

"Father, you can't wait any longer. We will be eaten without even bones." He vaguely guessed that his father might have been waiting for Liu Wenjing's news. But if Liu Wenjing had been to the grassland for so long, if things were done, then news should have come early. But now, there is neither good news nor bad news. Liu Wenjing and other messengers who were on the grassland seemed to have disappeared all of a sudden, and there was no news.

Li Yuan still shook his head. This time he went south was related to the success or failure of Li Tang.

If the army is defeated, then the Li family will no longer be able to make a comeback, and the entire Hedong will be in danger and the Li family will inevitably die.

Li Yuan has always been calm and he will never bet on things that he has no certainty.

Crossing the river and fighting has always been a very dangerous thing. Especially now they are facing four famous generals of the Sui Dynasty, Yu Kuluo, Tu Wanxu, Yang Yichen, and Pei Renji, who will have a headache when they face the previous one, and Li Yuan is not sure about the previous one.

Planning and then acting is Li Yuan’s style of doing things.

He was waiting, and he wanted to wait until Yang Ming couldn't calm down and cross the river to attack first. At that time, he fought against the water and his troops were in the upper hand, so he would have at least 50% chance of winning.

If he was asked to cross the river, he could not find enough ships to cross the river in a hurry, and secondly, when crossing the river, he was easily attacked, and the chance of failure would be greatly increased. In history, there were countless war cases, which were the one with more soldiers and horses who failed when crossing the river and attacking the one with less soldiers.

Moreover, he is still waiting for news from Liu Wenjing.

He always had great expectations for the alliance Turks. He knew very well that the cavalry was suddenly powerful. If he could form an alliance with the Turks, he would not only be able to borrow Turkish soldiers and strengthen his strength, but also crucially, he could borrow the momentum of the Turks. Even if Liu Wenjing only borrowed 51,000 Turkic soldiers in the end, it would have a huge effect.

The Turkic soldiers were delayed, but Wang Shichong was behind him again, and Li Yuan was still unwilling to cross the river immediately.

He was still waiting. When the Fen River freezes, as long as the ice on the Fen River is thick enough, the dangerous Fen River will become a smooth road. At that time, he will no longer have to worry about being attacked by Yang Hing halfway. He can completely rely on his superior troops to attack Yang Hing.

Li Yuan not only wanted to defeat Yang Ming, but what he needed was to completely defeat Yang Ming and not give Yang Ming a chance to gain a foothold in Hedong. To enter Guanzhong, he must at least grab one of the two major ferry crossings in Hedong. If he could not defeat Yang Ming in one fell swoop, and finally let Yang Ming retreat into Puyang City or occupy Feng Lingdu, then the Li family would be the real trouble at that time.

Li Shimin listened quietly to his father's analysis and couldn't help but suddenly realize.

It turned out that my father was not passively avoiding the war, but had already understood everything.

Li Yuan said calmly, "Dalang, Erlang, we can give up Fenglingdu, but Puyang, we are determined to win. Crossing the river from Puban, and we have already left the west of Tongguan, and we can go straight to Chang'an, which greatly reduces the status of Tongguan. Therefore, the predecessors said: "The danger of Yongzhou is in Huayue, and the intersection with the Yellow River is in Tongguan. However, there must be Wan, Luo, Jin, and Jiang in the northeast, and then it can be Gu. Without Wan, Luo, Wuguan, and the danger of Xuhan can be

If you enter; if there is no Jin, then the obstacle of Linjin can enter." This obstacle of Linjin is Pujin Pass, so although Tongguan is called a natural danger, if there is no control over the "side gate" of Puban, then the natural danger cannot be said to be safe. Although Yu Wen and tens of thousands of soldiers were in Tongguan, Yu Wen and is just a playboy with high eyes and low skills, and have no ability. As long as we can defeat Yang Ming and successfully capture Puyang, Guanzhong will be dangerous, but we can enter directly."

"Although Puyang has a floating bridge to reach Guanzhong, Yuwen Shu sent troops to guard the other side, Pujin, Zhongji, Xiguan, and two cities and one pass to guard Pujin. I am afraid that we will defeat Yangji and seize Puyang, and I am afraid that we will not be able to attack Pujin for the time being."

Li Yuan laughed a few times and said softly to Li Shimin with a smile on his face, "The biggest reason why my father agreed to abandon Hedong and go to Guanzhong was that he thought Guanzhong was desirable at that time. If Yang Hsiao had not taken out halfway, I was afraid that our father would have stood in the Tai Chi Palace in Daxing City. Let me tell you a secret, the Guanzhong guards who guarded Pujin, Zhongli, and Xiguan, were not others, but a good friend of your father, who made a friend in his early years, was Jin Xiaomo, a martial arts man. He had great kindness to his father and Jin Xiaomo, but later I had letters with him, but few people knew about this. At the beginning of the rebellion in Jinyang, I had sent someone to contact Jin Xiaomo with a handwritten letter, and he also said that when our army arrived, we would offer the second pass to join us. Therefore, as long as we can seize Puyang, we can easily enter Guanzhong. The so-called natural danger of Tongguan can be used by us."

This was the first time Li Shimin heard his father talk about this, and he couldn't help but feel excited. With this passage that could be entered at any time and entered Guanzhong, what's the point of being afraid of him? He looked at his father and knew him a little more. If it weren't for his urge to urge him today, I'm afraid his father wouldn't have told him such a secret at all.

"Erlang, you must not tell the lieutenant generals and colludes that you just said for the time being. You must keep the secrets strictly. Do you understand?" Li Yuan said seriously.

Li Shimin nodded, "I know that only half a month's remaining grain in the army is left, and Wang Shichong cut off our army's retreat. We still need to prepare early. Otherwise, if Wang Shichong and Yang Hing attack our army on both sides, I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist at that time."

Li Yuan pondered for a while and frowned, "This is really something that must be guarded against. Even if Wang Shichong does not join forces with Yang Ming, as long as Wang Shichong appears behind us, the morale of the military will be greatly affected, and it will collapse if it is not done well. Recently, it is cold and cold. Although many soldiers are injured, such cold weather has accelerated the freezing of the Fen River. We still have half a month's military rations, but according to my observation, it is estimated that at most four or five days, the ice on the Fen River can be completely enough to allow the army to survive smoothly."

"There is no news from the Turkic side yet, so I want to wait a few more days. Therefore, for my father, I decided that in seven days, no matter whether the Turkic people on the grassland are willing to borrow troops, we must launch an attack on Yang Hung, defeat Yang Hung in one battle, and then take advantage of the situation to capture Puyang and enter Guanzhong."

"Erlang, you lead 20,000 troops from the right army in the headquarters to the Jishan Pass north to station and strictly prevent Wang Shichong's Jianghuai army from going south to Longmen."

Li Shimin nodded, "Father, please rest assured, my child will never let Wang Shichong cross Jishan one step."

On the New Year's Day of the first year of the Republic, Hedong was located at the junction of Linfen and Jiangjun, and at the intersection of Qiaoshan and Fen River, which was the second dangerous pass to Taiyuan, except for Huoyi. To the south of this pass, the only way to the north of the counties in the southeast of Hedong.

Among the snowflakes falling all over the sky, Taiping Pass, a critical pass, was full of dead bodies, and beacons everywhere. On the battlefield of the snow, there were post-war chaos everywhere, and broken swords and guns were scattered on the snow, reflecting pale snow light.

Wang Shichong rode a war horse and, accompanied by his eldest son Wang Xuanying and other generals, slowly entered the city from the southern gate of Taiping Pass that had just been captured.

A commander from a cavalry flew to report the victory.

"Report to King Zheng, the two northern and southern Taiping Pass have been taken down!"

"Report to King Zheng, the Li Tanghe East Army camp in the city has been taken down!"

"Report to King Zheng that the granary in the city has been seized. The Hedong Army tried to set fire to the warehouse, but it has been extinguished by us and all the food has been saved."

"Report to King Zheng that all the defeated Hedong Army soldiers have been surrounded in the armory in the north of the city, and they are still resisting stubbornly."

"Report to King Zheng, the soldiers of Fuyuan Camp have broken through the armory, and the entire Hedong army that did not surrender in the end has been completely wiped out."

Along the way, one after another of good news came. Looking at the corpses of Hedong Army along the horse's hooves, the piles of people and horses, Wang Shichong's heart was filled with a sense of high spirits as a conquerors. The solid Hedong was almost locked at my feet, this was my Hedong! Li Yuan had betrayed their covenant and had him under his back for a time. What if he belonged to him? He would eventually take back what he belonged to him.

Wherever he went, the bloody JAC soldiers raised their weapons to him and cheered: "Zheng Zheng is mighty, long live Zheng Wang!"

The group was filled with enthusiasm, and the horses were fast and the hooves were fast, trampling on the ice and snow, splashing the snow balls, and they all fell like hail.
Chapter completed!