Chapter 1279: Fighting Dragon City (Part 1)
Chapter 1279 Battle against Dragon City (Part 1)
Chapter 1277: Battle against Dragon City (Part 1)
The main reason why the Sui army could compete with the Tang army was that they had three super generals, Yang Jian, Lu Bu and Hou Yi. But now the three of them have separated from the Sui army together. For the Sui army, this is simply a blow worse than losing Guanzhong. Even bigger.
After Yang Guang learned that Lu Bu and Hou Yi had also left, he deeply regretted letting Yang Jian go. He believed that it was his tolerance that gave Lu Bu and Hou Yi the courage to leave. Little did he know that Lu Bu and Hou Yi had never Not belonging to the Sui army.
Lu Bu was Ding Yuan's adopted son, and Hou Yi was the late emperor Tuogu's general. They were both forced to surrender to Dong Zhuo, which also laid hidden dangers for Dong Zhuo's death later.
When Dong Zhuo was still alive, the two of them were naturally honest and did not dare to make the slightest move, but after Dong Zhuo died, that was not necessarily the case, not to mention that even Yang Jian was dead now.
You should know that even Yang Guang's father Yang Jian never really convinced Lu Bu and Hou Yi. They just used each other to get what they needed.
The reason why Lu Bu and Hou Yi stayed with Yang Jian was because Yang Jian was most likely to unify the Liang army at that time, and they were also involved in the whirlpool of public opinion due to Dong Zhuo's death, so they had to temporarily serve Yang Jian.
After Yang Jian's death, Yang Guang succeeded to the throne and became the king of Sui. If Yang Guang could win the duel with Li Shimin and finally unify Guanxi, then Lu Bu and Hou Yi might follow the trend and become loyal to Yang Guang, but in the end Yang Guang still lost to Li Shimin, then Naturally, they will not continue to work for Yang Guang.
In general, although Yang Guang lost three super generals, Yang Jian, Lu Bu, and Hou Yi, he still had: Yang Su, Gao Ying, Wu Yunzhao, Shi Wansui, He Ruobi, Li Huanzhang, Yao Gonglin, Zhi Jian, and Guo Shen. Waiting for the assistance of civil and military ministers.
With the current lineup of civil and military personnel under his command, Yang Guang may not be able to deal with Li Shimin, but in the territory of Liangzhou, he is definitely a well-deserved overlord. Of course, it will not be easy for him to unify Liangzhou.
Correspondingly, Li Shimin's situation is not much better than that of Yang Guang.
By overthrowing Yang Jian, Li Shimin not only won the allegiance of the Liang clan, but also the loyalty of many Sui clan generals. Now he has a large number of talents from the Liang, Tang and Sui clans under his command.
Tang Dynasty: Li Yuanba, Li Xiuning, Li Xiaogong, Li Keyong, Li Maozhen, Li Chunfeng, Li Yu, Changsun Wuji, Du Ruhui, Chai Shao, Hou Junji, Yin Kaishan...
Liang family: Hua Xiong, Li Jue, Guo Si, Niu Fu, Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu, Hu Che'er, Hu Chi'er...
Sui Dynasty: Yu Wenshu, Xin Wenli, Yu Juluo, Shang Shistu, Zuo Tiancheng...
After Yang Jian returned to the Yang family, Li Shimin ignored the previous suspicion and went to the Yang family in person to recruit Yang Jian, while Yang Biao said good things to Li Shimin.
In the end, Li Shimin and Yang Jian formed a gentleman's agreement, promising that Yang Jian would never let him "become an enemy of Yang Guang." God general.
So in terms of the current talent lineup, Li Shimin's talents are definitely second only to Qin Hao in terms of quality and quantity. A new Kansai overlord is about to stand in the land of Kansai again.
Although Li Shimin inherited Dong Zhuo's foundation, he was not prepared to inherit the "Liang" banner. Instead, like Yang Jian, he wanted to create his own power, Tang Dynasty.
Yang Jian changed Liang to Sui, but was opposed by all the Liang generals, while Li Shimin changed Liang to Tang, but was supported by everyone.
First of all, after experiencing such a great internal strife, the Liang generals also accepted the fact that Dong Zhuo was dead. They could not immerse themselves in the glory of the past. They must have new heroes to lead them in writing new legends.
Secondly, with Yang Jian usurping the throne, the Liang generals were no longer as resistant to changing flags as before. Finally, Li Shimin’s status as Dong Zhuo’s son-in-law allowed the Liang generals to accept the change of flag.
The newly born Tang Army was ultimately formed based on the Liang Army, so Li Shimin wanted to completely eliminate Dong Zhuo's influence and thus put his own stamp on it. This was definitely not something that could be accomplished in the short term.
However, Li Shimin was not in a hurry at all. Everything happened slowly and naturally, and he was ready to boil the frog in warm water and moisturize everything silently.
After Li Shimin unified Yongzhou, he originally planned to send troops to capture Liangzhou immediately, but gave up this plan under Du Ruhui's persuasion.
Du Ruhui, who was lucky enough to survive Yang Jian's assassination, stated to Li Shimin the four major disadvantages of marching into Liangzhou at this time:
1. The previous internal fighting consumed a lot of energy in Guanzhong. The Tang army's military strength was greatly reduced, and the army was determined and it was really not suitable to fight again;
2. There are four forces in Liangzhou: Yang Guang, Ma Teng, Han Sui, and the Qiang people. The strength of the major warlords is not weak. Even if they send troops, they may not be able to occupy Liangzhou, and both sides will suffer;
3. Qiang King Yelu Abaoji would never sit back and watch the Tang army unify Liangzhou, and would definitely switch sides to help the Liangzhou warlords when necessary;
4. Sooner or later, the various forces in Liangzhou will break out into a war. When they have exhausted each other, the Tang army will be able to easily capture Liangzhou when they advance westward.
In summary, the above four points made Li Shimin understand that for the current Tang army, the most important thing is not to expand territory, but to recuperate and recuperate.
The Tang Army in Guanzhong stopped fighting and, while watching the Battle of Hetao, they also began to recuperate and sort out the army's internal affairs.
Li Shimin did not pursue the victory and invade Liangzhou, but chose to recuperate. This shocked Zhou Yu at Hangu Pass. He even suspected that Li Shimin was taking the opportunity to recapture Hangu Pass.
However, the Qin army is currently not fighting in Sizhou or Jingbei. Even if Li Shimin takes advantage of this to lead the army to advance eastward, the Qin army still has sufficient military strength to support Hangu Pass, so Zhou Yu is not too worried.
What Zhou Yu didn't expect was that after Li Shimin withdrew his troops, instead of attacking Hangu Pass, he donated 10,000 shi of grain to the Qin army, saying it was aid to help the Qin army fight against foreigners.
The Battle of Hetao attracted the attention of the princes of the world, but ignored the remote land of Yizhou, where a war against foreigners was also going on.
There was no assistance from the princes along the way in this battle, but the coalition forces of Liu Ji and Liu Yu still won the victory, repelling Chi You's southern barbarian army in Yizhou today.
At the same time, before Bai Qi was about to lead his army to Yinshan City, the decisive battle on the grassland broke out in advance.
Although Temujin ordered all the tribes south of Longcheng to move north, the relocation of the entire tribe was not that simple. Moreover, no matter how fast they moved, they could not be faster than the Han cavalry.
In just ten days, the two cavalrymen of Huo Qubing and Zhuge Liang who came out of the fortress destroyed one large tribe, six medium-sized tribes, and 11 small tribes of Yuanmeng. A total of more than 300,000 Yuanmeng herdsmen were slaughtered and burned. Nearly a thousand miles of fertile pasture.
The grassland south of Longcheng was completely reduced to scorched earth.
(End of this chapter)