Chapter 1009 New Goal: East and West Beijing
In a state of Fenzhou, three dukes led their troops to chase and kill them. The two rivers coalition forces lost a lot, and the defeat was like a mountain of defeat. More than 20,000 troops were almost gone.
As dawn approached, the overall situation was settled. After the war, the Duke of the Three Kingdoms killed more than 7,000 Lianghe Army soldiers and captured more than 1,800. Most of the generals of the Two Rivers were captured. In the end, less than 3,000 were missed. Even Shatuo Generals like Li Cunzhang could not escape. He only left one of the two An Jinquan brothers. In the chaos, Li Cunzhang, Li Sien, Li Siben and others fought to the death of the palace. Only then could he change into ordinary soldiers' outfits and protect the young Shatuo Prince Li Cunxu fled to the south.
However, a few big fish were missed, but Lin Wei didn't care too much. In this battle, Shatu's final power was basically gone, and even ten thousand soldiers and horses in the river were almost defeated. Shatu's last few generals were almost dead or captured. Even if the An Jin brothers were loyal to the Zhu Xie family, they could no longer make any waves in this ending. It can be said that the Shatu tribe, who has been fighting the Qin vassal for the past few years, has ended here.
After a long rest, Lin Wei sent people to take the captives and several generals Shatuo who died in battle to Taiyuan. Then, with Lin Wu and Wang Chong, the two generals, divided into three groups, each leading an army, and attacked the only remaining states in the Hedong towns of Fen, Yi and Qin. Shatuo has been destroyed, and the last three states can be swept across.
When Lin Wei's victory was delivered, Li Jing was outside Taiyuan City, preparing for the entry ceremony.
Li Kexiu had already surrendered, and a army of Qin troops entered the city to take over the city, but Li Jing's central army camp was still located outside the city. For Li Jing, taking Taiyuan was of great significance. Moreover, because Taiyuan did not attack, many Taiyuan people had not yet faced the might of the Qin army. According to Zeng Yuanyu's proposal, the Qin army needed a grand and deterrent entry ceremony. After Li Jing considered it, he also felt that this proposal was very good. A grand entry ceremony was very necessary. This is the northern capital of the Tang Dynasty and the Longxing land of the Tang Dynasty, and it has always been the center of the north. Especially after the Anshi Rebellion, Hebei area has always been an area that the imperial court could not really control. Hedong became the northern border controlled by the Tang Dynasty. In Hebei, the Daibei area outside Yanmen Pass, there were many inner Hu people, the real north controlled place of the Tang Dynasty, and the northern center was always Taiyuan.
He quickly pacified Hebei. Now that he took Hedong Town by lightning, Li Jing was overjoyed and was even very surprised. Now he received Lin Wei's good news and learned that he had defeated the two river coalition forces and even wiped out most of his troops. Shatuo escaped one of them. Although Li Keyong's little boys left, the three thousand people who escaped and the An brothers were no longer enough to make Li Jing worry about it.
On June 18th, early in the morning, the people in Taiyuan City were notified from door to door to welcome the King of Qin into the city.
Outside the north gate of Taiyuan, Li Kexiu was dressed in white, and behind him were the civil and military officials of Hedong Town, who were wearing white clothes. Later, he was standing there were the gentry, powerful, merchants, landlords and gentry in Taiyuan City. Everyone standing here was full of various complex thoughts. Everyone knew that an old era had passed and a new era had arrived.
The drums and music sounded from afar, and the rhythmic pace came from the drum beats. The first thing appeared was the full ceremonial guard of King Li Jing of Qin, and various flags and gold medals were used to lead the way. Then a cavalry with golden light shining all over the body arrived. The dazzling golden armor, golden spear, and even their war horses and golden clothes were all composed of golden war horses. These golden knights descending like heavenly soldiers, had more than one hundred riders in one square formation, and had a total of thirty-six square formations.
"That is the King of Qin's golden armor, the first personal army of the Supreme Three Army among the Six Guards of the King of Qin, the real elite, the ace among the ace!" A businessman familiar with the number of Qin's army said quietly to the person next to him, his tone full of awe.
The Golden Armor Army, and then there are three guards, three guards, three guards, and attendants...
Although Taiyuan has always been the capital of the Tang Dynasty, the people of Taiyuan have always regarded themselves very high-mindedly and felt that they had a high vision. In the past, many of the various armies had seen. But today, the Qin army held a ceremony to enter the city deeply shocked them. They did not expect that the army could be so majestic, just like the heavenly soldiers and generals. The Qin army was well-equipped, especially now, almost all the soldiers are professional army, each of which is one of the ten elites, and has received long-term training and experienced it.
The war was tempered, and the Qin vassal soldiers were also treated very well. In addition to being trained in wars, they also learned culture. Such soldiers were of course of high quality and naturally good-looking. How could they be compared to those old and weak mobs who were strongly recruited? Especially before entering the city, Li Jing also issued an order, and all the soldiers and horses were replaced with brand new military uniforms, polished their armor and weapons, and washed them with dazzling clothes. They even arranged a military parade and demarcation lineup to enter the city. How could they not scare the people of Taiyuan?
Li Jing rode on the huge "land tiger", and there was a silver wolf Xiaoyue in front of the horse. On the shoulders of two guards Tieqiang and Zhao Jiang, Li Jing's two jade claws were still on the shoulders of the East Green Sea. Beside him was guarding the guards officers composed of 108 meritorious captains. The momentum shocked the whole audience. In the meantime, all the people and gentry in Taiyuan knelt down and greeted each other, shouting long live the mountain.
Li Jing was very satisfied with this result. Although the show was very big, the effect was also very good. After such a city-like approach, which Taiyuan people would not be intimidated by the strength of Qin's vassal? Who would dare to commit suicide?
After entering the city, Li Jing's headquarters had already chosen a place, just in Jinyang Palace. This was originally the palace of the Great Sui Dynasty, but later became the palace of the Tang Dynasty, and now it has become the headquarters of Li Jing's headquarters after entering Taiyuan. Taiyuan City is very large. Although it is not as prosperous as Yanjing City today, nor as huge and solid as Hejian, it is still the center of Hedong.
For Li Jing, it is of great significance to take over Taiyuan. This place is connected to Yanjing in the north and Zhenzhou in the east, and to the west is Chang'an in Guanzhong, and to the south is Luoyang in Henan.
It can be said that at this moment, Li Jing was truly full of wings, his foundation was established, and even had the foundation to sweep the whole day.
As soon as he entered Jinyang Palace, Liu Yunniang welcomed him with a smile on his face. As soon as he took Taiyuan, Li Jing sent someone to notify Liu Yunniang and asked her to go south as soon as possible. Li Keyong took their daughter away for several years. Although she and Li Jing had children again, that was also her flesh and blood. Fortunately, Li Kexiu surrendered, Taiyuan was spared from a war, and all the people in the city were saved. Liu Yunniang is very happy now, and the mother and daughter reunited again, and she is very grateful to Li Jing. The excited Liu even rushed into Li Jing's arms without caring about the guards next to her. He hugged Li Jing's tiger waist and kissed him excitedly. This fanatical and boldness made Li Jing a little surprised. He was about to take Liu to the dormitory to have a good time, but Zeng Wuyu had already sent someone to invite Li Jing to discuss matters.
Since the Qin army sent troops, it has been moving rapidly and progressing smoothly. However, the generals of the Qin army are now getting bigger and bigger, and some people are already feeling that they are not satisfied with swallowing an elephant.
As soon as Li Jing stepped into Li Keyong's hall, Zeng Yuanyu immediately stood up and spoke.
"King, the situation is very good now. We ask the king to issue an order and continue to go south!"
"It is better to pursue the enemy with courage, not to seek fame and learn from the overlord!" Li Jing first recited a poem, and then said boldly: "The current situation is indeed much better than we expected at the beginning. It can even be said to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. After more than ten years of accumulation, Qin Fan's great sword was finally sharp. Now the sword has been unsheathed, how can it be returned empty-handed? Now the three towns of Chengde, Wei Bo and Hedong have been pacified one after another. Our soldiers are still sharp and have a strong fighting spirit. We can continue to take advantage of the victory. Let me tell you a good news, Duke An Guo, Duke Baoguo and Duke Ning Guo have been defeated in the north and captured the three prefectures of Yi, Fen and Qin. Now the entire Hedong town has been taken down, and all the generals are all determined to fight, and Gu can no longer stop. Gu has decided that the army will take advantage of the victory to continue the southern expedition."
Li Jing's decision did not come suddenly, but decided after considering the current situation in the Central Plains. The Yang brothers were already involved in the quagmire of war against Zhu Wen and Chengdu, and could not extricate themselves in a short period of time. No one expected that the Qin army could sweep the three northern towns in such a short period of time. Now that Li Jing continues to move south, he has a great advantage.
What Qin Fan had to do now is to continue the southern expedition when the towns could not react and seize Hezhong Town in one fell swoop, and seize Hezhong Town. The Qin army could conquer Guanzhong in the west and attack Luoyang in the south. The second place took one place, and the situation was clear and the two places were taken down, so the situation could no longer be repeated.
What the Qin army had to do was to disrupt it quickly and not give the other party a chance to unite and confront each other.
The military discussion quickly made a decision, with Lin Wei, Lin Wu and Wang Chong as the vanguard army of the Southern Expedition, taking advantage of the situation to attack King Chongrong of Hezhong in the south, and Li Jing was in charge of Taiyuan and commanding the overall situation. In addition, the two important officials of Li Jing's teacher, Yu Jun and Xin Xu, led a 30,000 troops from Shuozhou to cross Zihe, and threatened the Tiande Army and Zhenwu Army in the area of Hequ Sanshoucheng controlled by Helianduo and Bai Yicheng from the northern flank. Yu Jun was once the commander of the Tiande Army and Zhenwu Army, and Xin Xu was the deputy commander of the Datong Army and had old age with Helianduo and others. At the same time, Helianduo and the two were also subject to the control of the Qi. Send this father-in-law to take action, so he naturally wanted to use the big stick and Huluobu of the Tuyuhun people, and be sure to restrain them.
At the same time, Li Jing sent general Zeng Yuanyu to personally lead an army to cross the Yellow River from Mengjin Pass in Shizhou, and his troops were launched on the west bank of the Yellow River. The purpose was to threaten Dingnan Town and Baoda Town controlled by Dangxiang people Tuoba Sigong and Dongfang Kui. While restraining their power, it was also to explore the way for the Qin army to enter Guanlong and establish a forward base.
Of course, these two groups of troops are mainly restrained. As long as they do not take the initiative to fight with the Qin army or unite with other towns, the two partial divisions will not really attack them. But once they have other ideas, or even want to unite with the towns to fight against Qin, the Qin army will never be polite.
"To control Hezhong Town, then Shangdang Highland must be controlled by the Shangdang Highland." Shangdang has been a place that must be fought for by military strategists since ancient times. Shangdang Basin is a highland, connecting Taiyuan to the north, Heyang to the south, Hezhong to the west, and Xingmeng to the east, which is an extremely important area. Today, Shangdang is under the control of Zhaoyi Town. The Xingmeng prefectures to the east of this town are east of Taihang Mountain, Zezhou, Luzhou and others are west of Taihang Mountain. They have always been domineering vassal states. In the mutiny of the vassal states after the Tang Dynasty, Zhaoyi mutiny can rank among the top three. Today, Zhaoyi Town has just experienced two mutinys, and Meng Lifang controlled Zhaoyi, but he only controlled half of Zhaoyi, and the other half is actually controlled by the military leaders below. "The order to Zhou Dewei and Guo Chongtao to attack Zhaoyi and monitor Heyang at the same time!"
If you take Hezhong Town, then the Qin army can occupy the east bank of Pugu, which opens the side gate to Chang'an, Guanzhong. If you take Zhaoyi Town, Luoyang will be within the range of the Qin army's attack from then on.
Chapter completed!