Chapter 1279 Battle of Dragon City (Part 1)
Chapter 1277: Battle of Dragon City (Part 1)
The reason why the Sui army could compete with the Tang army was mainly because it had three super gods, Yang Jian, Lu Bu and Houyi. Now the three of them have actually separated from the Sui army together. For the Sui army, it was even more severe than losing Guanzhong.
After Yang Guang learned that Lu Bu and Houyi had also left, he regretted his actions of letting Yang Jian go. He thought it was his tolerance that gave Lu Bu and Houyi the courage to leave, but he did not know that Lu Bu and Houyi had never belonged to the Sui army.
Lu Bu was Ding Yuan''s adopted son, and Houyi was the general who was entrusted by the late emperor. They were all 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 any changes. But after Dong Zhuo died, it may not be possible, not to mention that even Yang Jian is dead now.
You know, even Yang Guang''s father Yang Jian never really impressed Lu Bu and Houyi. They just used each other and took their own needs.
The reason why Lu Bu and Houyi stayed with Yang Jian was because Yang Jian was most likely to unify the Liang army at that time, and they were also trapped in a vortex of public opinion because of 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 showdown with Li Shimin and eventually unify Guanxi, then Lu Bu and Houyi might be loyal to Yang Guang, but Yang Guang still lost to Li Shimin, so they naturally would not continue to play for Yang Guang.
In general, although Yang Guang lost the three super gods, Yang Jian, Lu Bu and Houyi, he still had civil and military officials and other civil and military officials.
With Yang Guang''s current lineup of civil and military personnel, he 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 is definitely not easy for him to unify Liangzhou.
I don’t know how much better Li Shimin’s situation is than Yang Guang.
By overthrowing Yang Jian, Li Shimin not only received allegiance from the Liang clan, but also received many Sui generals. Now he is home to talents from the Liang, Tang and Sui clans, and is full of talents.
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: Hua Xiong, Li Jue, Guo Si, Niu Fu, Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu, Hu Cheer, Hu Chier...
Sui Group: Yuwen Shu, Xin Wenli, Yu Juluo, Shang Master and Apprentice, Zuo Tiancheng...
After Yang Jian returned to the Yang family, Li Shimin took advantage of his past grudges and went to the Yang family to recruit Yang Jian himself, while Yang Biao spoke good things to Li Shimin.
In the end, after Li Shimin and Yang Jian reached a gentleman agreement and promised that Yang Jian would never let him "become Yang Guang". He not only subdued Yang Jian, a peerless general who was not inferior to Li Yuanba, but also accompanied the two gods, Kang Anyu and Zhang Boshi.
So in terms of talent lineup, the talents under Li Shimin are definitely second only to Qin Hao in terms of quality and quantity. A new Kansai overlord will soon stand in the Kansai area again.
Although Li Shimin inherited Dong Zhuo''s foundation, he was not prepared to inherit the "Liang". Instead, like Yang Jian, he wanted to build his own power, Tang.
Yang Jian changed Liang to Sui, but was opposed by all Liang generals, while Li Shimin changed Liang to Tang, but he was supported by everyone.
First of all, after such a big internal friction, the generals of the Liang clan also accepted the fact that Dong Zhuo was dead. They could not immerse themselves in the glory of the past, but had to have new heroes to lead them to write new legends.
Secondly, with Yang Jian usurping the throne in front, the generals of the Liang clan were no longer as resistant to changing the flag and changing the flag. Finally, the identity of Li Shimin and Dong Zhuo’s son-in-law allowed the Liang generals to accept the change of flags and flags.
The freshman Tang army was eventually formed based on the Liang army, so Li Shimin wanted to completely eliminate Dong Zhuo''s influence and put his own mark on it. This is definitely not something that can be done in the short term.
But Li Shimin was not anxious at all. He took everything away from the flow and prepared to boil the frog in warm water and moisten the things silently.
After Li Shimin unified Yongzhou, he was originally planning to send troops to seize Liangzhou immediately, but he gave up this plan under Du Ruhui''s advice.
Du Ruhui, who was lucky enough to save his life under Yang Jian''s assassination, stated to Li Shimin the four major disadvantages of entering Liangzhou at this time:
1. The previous internal strife consumed a considerable vitality from Guanzhong. The Tang army''s military strength was greatly damaged, and the army was determined, so it was really not appropriate to fight again;
2. Liangzhou has four forces, Yang Guang, Ma Teng, Han Sui and Qiang people. The strength of each major warlord is not weak. Even if they send troops, they may not be able to occupy Liangzhou, and they will only suffer losses;
3. King Yelu Abaoji of Qiang will never sit idly by and watch the Tang army unify Liangzhou, and will definitely turn against Liangzhou warlords when necessary;
4. The forces in Liangzhou will sooner or later start a war. When they consume almost the same amount of mutual consumption, the Tang army will be able to easily capture Liangzhou when they are rushing their troops westward.
In summary, Li Shimin understood that for the current Tang army, the most important thing is not to expand territory, but to rest and recuperate.
The Tang army in Guanzhong stopped fighting. While watching the Hetao War, it also began to rest and recuperate and sort out the army''s internal affairs.
Instead of taking advantage of the victory to attack Liangzhou, Li Shimin chose to rest and recuperate, which made Zhou Yu from Hangu Pass jump. He even suspected that Li Shimin had the opportunity to retake Hangu Pass.
However, the Qin army has no war in Sizhou or Jingbei. Even if Li Shimin takes advantage of this to lead the army eastward, the Qin army will have sufficient military strength to support Hangu Pass, so Zhou Yu is not worried too much.
What Zhou Yu did not expect was that after Li Shimin stopped his troops, he not only did not invade Hangu Pass, but instead donated 10,000 stones of food to the Qin army, saying that it was to help the Qin army fight against foreign races.
The Hetao War attracted the attention of the princes in the world, but ignored the remote Yizhou area, and a war against foreign races was also underway.
The princes did not provide assistance to this war, but the coalition forces of Liu Ji and Liu Yu still won and repelled the southern barbarian army of Chiyou in Yizhou.
At the same time, before Bai Qi was about to lead his troops to Yinshan City, the decisive battle on the grassland broke out early.
Although Temujin ordered that all tribes south of Longcheng would move northward, the relocation of the entire tribe was not that simple. Moreover, no matter how fast their migration speed was, it would not be faster than the Han cavalry.
In just ten days, Huo Qubing and Zhuge Liang''s two cavalrymen who went out of the frontier successively destroyed a large tribe, six medium-sized tribes, and eleven small tribes of Yuanmeng, slaughtering more than 300,000 Yuanmeng herders and burning nearly a thousand miles of plump pastures.
The grassland south of Longcheng has completely turned into a scorched earth.
(This chapter ends)