Chapter 123 Traces
In the early morning, in the northwest direction of Guangtongcang, in the Weiqu reed marsh, Yuwen Wen, with a tired face, sat on the stone and gnawed dry food. The only last bit of the dry food he carried when he set off, was gone after eating.
A large group of soldiers sat around him, but with the protection of reeds, there was no one inside from a distance, and this was also the hiding place in Yuwen Wen's plan.
Guangtongcang is located south of the mouth of the Yellow River into the Wei River. When the Shiweikou moved south, the Guangtongcang site was north of the later Wei River. After the surprise attack in the early morning of this morning, Yuwen Wen led the Hulin Army across the Wei River and came to the Weiqu area at the junction of Wei and Luo to hide.
In the original history, Guangtong Cang (also known as Yongfeng Cang) was one of the eight major warehouses of the Sui Dynasty, and Luokou Cang (Xingluo Cang) occupied by the heroes of Wagang at the end of the Sui Dynasty was also one of them. These eight major warehouses accumulated countless grains. It is said that after the chaos in the late Sui Dynasty and after the establishment of the Li Tang Dynasty, the grain stored could be eaten for decades.
Yuwen Wen felt something strange was that the grain storage period was generally only three to five years, and it had to be properly preserved with shells. What kind of grain is still edible after being stored for decades? It is really intriguing.
However, this has nothing to do with him. At this time, Guangtong Cang was not so exaggerated because the Sui State failed to unify Jiangbei, but it also stocked up a lot of them. It was originally "specially supplied" to Chang'an, but now it is the logistics base of the Sui State army.
Guangtong Warehouse is over. The Sui army outside Chang'an City is facing the danger of food being cut off. They can only be transported from other places, but where can they be delivered?
There is no need to think about Shu. There is a fierce battle in Luozhou. The military rations of the Sui army in Luozhou may not be unnecessary. They can only transport grain from Hedong through Pujin to Guanzhong on the west bank, and then take land to Chang'an. But where can we mobilize so much grain in a hurry?
This is just a "technical problem". Guangtong Cang was burned, and the direct blow was the morale of the Sui army. If the food and grass supply were not enough, no matter how elite soldiers could be defeated, let alone most of the Sui army generals are now ulterior motives. Once the situation is not good, the fencemen will instantly turn into "loyal ministers anyway".
Humph, Yuwen Wen burned Guangtong Cang, and he might be famous for historic books!
He couldn't help but be happy when he thought of this. He finished eating the dry food that was hard to swallow. Zhang Yu was with the other soldiers on the side and used a small cloth bag to pack the food.
Where did the grain come from? Guangtong Cangbei, Yu Wenwen, who was about to lose food, was not stupid. While setting fire to the granary, he asked someone to pack some corn as a successor military ration.
Then the question comes again: if you cross mountains and ridges and do surprise attacks, you will definitely not bring a cauldron or urn, and how can you cook without cooking utensils?
Well, hehe...
"Master, what are you laughing at?"
Zhang Yu interrupted Yuwen's distracted at the right time and did not report Chen Wu's approaching, saying that there was no abnormality in the warning around him. The previous group of soldiers who were resting had already taken a nap for a while, and now it was their turn to join in.
Yuwen Wen couldn't sleep. Now he was immersed in the joy of the night attack, and was a little excited, so he talked too much: "Do you know where this place is?"
"Isn't it called Weiqu?"
"No, no, it's not. There is a name here, called Shayuan. Do you know the battle of Shayuan?"
The Battle of Shayuan, if there is a slight change in the battle situation, it will change history, and happened to be in this area fifty years ago.
At that time, the East and West Wei confronted each other. Gao Huan, the Prime Minister of the Eastern Wei, led his army to attack the Western Wei, crossed the Yellow River and landed on the west bank of Pujin and entered Guanzhong. The troops pointed to Chang'an, 300 miles away, with nearly 200,000 troops.
The Prime Minister of the Western Wei Dynasty, Yuwen Tai, led his army to attack, with only 10,000 troops, but he had no choice but to retreat. He personally led his troops to have fewer enemies, and the two sides started a battle in Weiqu.
There are large reeds in Weiqu, which are muddy and difficult to move. The Western Wei army set up formations with its back water. The main force hid in the reed marsh and divided part of its forces to lure the enemy. As a result, the Eastern Wei army underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, chasing the "defeated soldiers" into the reed marsh, and indeed encountered a hiding encounter.
In the Battle of Shayuan, the Western Wei army annihilated and incorporated more than 80,000 Eastern Wei army with one enemy of ten, and obtained countless food, grass and weapons. The weak Western Wei regime was consolidated, and this battle was also known as the name in history.
After listening to Yuwen Wen's introduction, everyone suddenly realized that looking at the large reeds around it, it was indeed a good place to hide soldiers. If the enemy was underestimated, it would be easy to get into ambush, especially the cavalry, who rushed into it and could not be used at all.
However, Chen Wudi had a question: "Duke, Qi Shenwu was also a man who fought many wars. He didn't have suspicion about the reed marsh? Didn't the generals around him remind him?"
"The military strength advantage is too great, and he no longer takes the Western Wei army seriously."
"But...well, if you set a torch and burn the reed marsh, it wouldn't be a one-time and for all?"
"He wanted to do this, but some people said they were afraid of burning, so they could not identify Yuwen... Taizu's body was not able to be captured alive so that they could not be told to the world."
"Oh..." Chen Wudi nodded, but then an idea popped up in his mind.
If the Sui army came to search for this reed marsh, if there were any ambushes, they would just ignite the fire...
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On the north bank of the Wei River, a large group of Sui troops were advancing. The commander of Tongzhou was led by Li Hun, the governor of Tongzhou. Last night, the fire was attacked and the direction of Tongzhou could be seen vaguely. However, the incident happened in a hurry and he did not have time to send troops to reinforce.
Tongzhou is located in the northeast of Chang'an and is located in an important position. After Li Hun arranged his defense, he rushed to Guangtong Cang with his troops in the morning. However, he was not long after he left the city and was urgently reported that Guangtong Cang was burned beyond recognition.
It's over, the food and grass are gone, and the Chang'an government troops are afraid that the morale of the army will be in chaos, so they can't attack Chang'an and avenge their brothers!
After the Zhou army invaded Chang'an, they killed all the Li clan members who were left in the city. Some servants escaped from the city by chance and went to Tongzhou to cry. Li Hun felt dizzy at the time and almost unconscious.
His father Li Mu supported Yang Jian as the emperor and was named the Grand Tutor, so the Li family was rich and honored. It is precisely because of this that the Zhou Kingdom would not let the Li family go. If we consider the reason, it is indeed the Li family abandoned the Yuwen family, but this is not the reason why Li Hun gave up his revenge.
But with a breath, I will definitely cut Yuwen Liang and his son alive!
Li Hun, full of revenge, gave up the idea of reinforcement of Guangtongcang. What he wants to do now is to capture the culprit of the attack on Guangtongcang.
The Zhou army must have attacked Guangtongcang. Li Hun judged that this surprise soldier should have crossed the Qinling Mountains and emerged from a certain valley between Huashan County and Tongguan. The other party was very likely to retreat without the original path, because the garrison in Tongguan was very close to Guangtongcang.
The reinforcements from Huazhou should have arrived very quickly. If this Zhou army retreated southward, it would have encountered the official army halfway, and has not received such news yet.
What does this mean? It means that the other party has fled north!
The Wei River is north of Guangtongcang. After passing the Wei River, Pujin is northeast and there are garrisons. Even if the other party grabs the ship in Pujin, there is no place to run: Hedong is still the boundary of the Sui Kingdom. If you want to go downstream and reach the Dizhu Mountain Basin of Sanmenxia, Shanzhou, you will capsize.
So after the Zhou army passed through the Wei River... they hid in Weiqu in front of them!
Li Hun looked at a large reed marsh on the north bank of the Wei River and thoughtfully. The reeds were lush and it was difficult to see if they were hiding inside. And he was not unfamiliar with this place.
Fifty years ago, his father Li Mu made military achievements as Zhou Taizu Yu and Wen Tai fought hard to kill the enemy. The scene at that time, my father later talked about it many times.
"If Gao Huan had burned the reed marsh in the fire back then, he would have been buried in the sea of fire for his father."
Chapter completed!