Turbulent Times Chapter 1553: War on three sides at the same time

For so many years, the Sui Dynasty has been full of wars and turmoil. The Eastern Turks took advantage of the fire to loot several times. How could the Western Turks have no action? Of course, the Zhaowu Kingdom established in the Western Regions with Wang Junlin's sworn brother Sha Qianmo contained the Western Turks. It is related to the great energy, but it is mainly because Niu Jinda has kept the Western Turks out of the pass all these years.

Even in order to ensure Niu Jinda's supply of food, grass and armaments, half of Wang Junlin's huge profits from the weapon town in the Qilian Mountains in the Western Regions was given to Niu Jinda to raise soldiers, and the remaining half was given to Shangguan Hu, Zhou Hu, Su Changqing, Wu San, Wu 4. Jiang Mulang, Li Xiang, and Li Fengyun are used to train and raise soldiers respectively.

What's more, Zhou Hu has been leading an army to guard the weapons town, because the town is getting bigger and bigger, and now it has a size of 100,000 people, and it has even become a big city in the Western Region.

On the other hand, Li Xiang and Li Fengyun commanded the army to guard the border between Xiping County and the Tubo clan. After Tuyuhun was almost exterminated by Wang Junlin, the Sui Dynasty directly confronted the Tubo clan who ruled the plateau.

The living environment of the Tubo tribe is extremely harsh. Although the population is small, even hundreds of thousands, everyone is a warrior on horseback, and can dispatch a hundred thousand powerful cavalry at any time. If it hadn't been for Li Xiang and Li Fengyun to block them To the west of Qinghai Lake, the Tubo people would never sit back and watch the great Sui turmoil and remain indifferent.

In fact, in the original history, Tubo took advantage of the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and Huaxia was unable to take care of the border. It took the opportunity to occupy Xiping County and Wuwei County, and took the opportunity to expand its power. After Li Shimin sent Li Jing to destroy the Eastern Turks, it became The East is only a country that is inferior to the Tang Dynasty, and even fought several times with the Tang Dynasty, forcing Li Shimin to adopt a marriage method and marry Princess Wencheng to the Tubo people.

And adopted the strategy of Du Ruhui and Changsun Wuji, took advantage of the fact that the Tibetans are very devout to Buddhism, sent a large number of eminent monks and temple builders as dowries to Princess Wencheng, and helped the Tibetans build luxurious and luxurious temples on the plateau , thus consuming a large amount of the already scarce national power of Tubo, and greatly weakening the national power of the Tubo people with this weird method.

But even so, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo people still entered Chang'an City five times to plunder, which was the most shameful thing in the Tang Dynasty.

Since Wang Junlin knew these things a long time ago, how could Wang Junlin be unprepared against the Tibetans.

So, each of his eight confidantes in the northwest has an average of 50,000 troops, and a total of 400,000 elite soldiers, but Niu Jinda commanded 100,000 soldiers together with Li Fengyun and Li Xiang. One hundred thousand people can't move rashly, and they are responsible for blocking the Western Turks and Tubo people, preventing the foreign enemies from stepping into the pass.

Wang Junlin has never let people publicize these strategic layouts, these efforts that directly affect or even determine the fate of China, because his eight subordinates in the northwest, except for Wu Si who is a horse thief, the others Before that, they were all generals of the Sui Dynasty in name.

"You have worked hard over the past seven years, especially Niu Jinda, Li Fengyun, and Li Xiang. After the world is unified, I will show the achievements of the three of you to the world. Less." Wang Junlin said with some emotion and sincerity.

"It's an honor for me to die for my lord." With Wang Junlin's words, the grievances and complaints from the bottom of the heart of the eight people who have been guarding the northwest for more than seven years and not being able to participate in the world's competition disappeared, and some of them were just serving Wang Junlin. heart of.

"At present, the Great Sui Dynasty is completely destroyed with the death of Yang Guang. The competition for the world has entered a new stage. Except for Niu Jinda who will continue to guard against the Western Turks, and Li Fengyun and Li Xiang who must guard against the Tubo people, the others are It's time to participate." Wang Junlin signaled everyone to get up, and then said calmly but solemnly.

Except for Niu Jinda, Li Fengyun, and Li Xiang who were a little depressed and regretful, the other five people were shocked, their eyes flickered, and they looked excited and expectant.

Wang Junlin was very satisfied with their response, and said: "Before assigning your specific tasks, you must first understand our strategic goals and overall layout."

Everyone immediately pricked up their ears to listen respectfully, and Wang Junlin continued: "For us, the Li Yuan Group is the biggest enemy right now, and it is also an enemy that must not be underestimated. Because the opponent is powerful, far from Li Mi Compared with what Yuwen Zhiji and others can do. Therefore, our goal in this battle is not to completely destroy the Li Yuan Group, but to take down the Li Yuan Group's nest east of the river, occupy Taiyuan Mansion, and severely damage the Li Yuan Group."

"Then through the guidance of public opinion, we won an all-round victory in the ideological field, so that people in the world generally think that I am the right man, so as to disintegrate the Li Yuan Group from within. This will prevent us from fighting to the death with the Li Yuan Group and causing Guanzhong Of course, it can also avoid unnecessary losses for us."

"After all, there are still too many local heroes in Huaibei and Huainan, as well as in Sichuan, Jiangnan, and Southwest. If we destroy the Li Yuan Group at all costs, we will inevitably lose a lot. If we are unable to go south within a short period of time, it is likely that other forces will take the opportunity to grow bigger, which is not conducive to our long-term combat.”

Speaking of which, Wang Junlin paused and asked, "Do you understand what I mean?"

Eight people immediately nodded and said in unison: "Don't worry, my lord, I will understand later."

Seeing that everyone easily understands what he means, Wang Junlin secretly heaves a sigh of relief. In the past few years, the eight people have not been by his side, and have not been taught and influenced by himself and Nie Xiaoyu. He has been worried that the eight people will not understand his own. Meaning, thereby affecting the completion of specific combat tasks later.

Now it seems that he is worrying too much. The eight people have not been by his side these past few years, but the eight people are the heroes of a party, and they are alone. Let alone training and fighting. They are extremely experienced and have naturally grown to a very high level. the height of. They are also not weak in other aspects, because they are warlords. Warlords are not just training soldiers and fighting wars. They are in charge of local government affairs, so how could they not grow.

"Now that everyone understands, let me talk about the overall strategic layout of this battle with the Li Yuan Group."

"Generally speaking, this is an all-out war, because once a war starts, there will be more than one battlefield, and more than one direction."

"Let's not talk about Mayi County. Once we send troops to Hedong, we will be rewarded by Li Shuliang, the North Route Army of Li Yuan Group.

The main general, Liu Hongji is the deputy general, and Pei Ji is the marching Sima's 100,000 troops to intercept. "

"In the east, in fact, the war has already begun. Li Shimin unknowingly created a horse thief with tens of thousands of people. Recently, he has started burning, killing and looting in Youzhou. Su Wen was about to make a move, and restrained Luo Yi's troops in a short time. In this way, Li Shimin, commander of the Li Yuan Group's East Route Army, would no longer have to face the pincer attacks of Luo Yi and Yuchi Jingde at the same time."

According to Wang Junlin's plan, but keep all the main force in the base camp, and deal with Li Shimin from the east, in addition to Luo Yi's 100,000 Youzhou army, order Yuchi Jingde as the commander, Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong as the deputy generals, three People command the Tiger Camp, Iron Hammer Camp, and Iron Spear Camp with a total of 150,000 troops to deal with Li Shimin, which can be said to be the utmost importance to Li Shimin.

"The west side will be left to you. After returning today, Wu San of Pingliang County, Zhou Hu of Jincheng County, Su Changqing of Zhangye County, Jiang Mulang of Xiping County, and Shangguan Hu of Tianshui County, the five of you can send 30,000 troops each. Send troops to Guanzhong or northern Shaanxi."

The five people who were pointed out were shocked, and quickly got up and clasped their fists and said: "I understand, please show me."

Wang Junlin nodded slightly, and continued: "Wu San and Su Changqing joined forces to send troops to northern Shaanxi, with Wu San as the main force and Su Changqing as the deputy. It is up to you to decide where and how to attack." /

Wu San and Su Changjiu hurriedly bowed and clasped their fists together and said, "I obey you."

Wang Junlin nodded, and said to the others: "Zhou Hu, Jiang Mulang, and Shangguan Hu, you three join forces and send troops to the Guanzhong Chencang area. Shangguan Hu is the leader, Zhou Hu and Jiang Mulang are the deputy. It is up to you to decide when and how to fight."

Shangguan Hu, Zhou Hu and Jiang Mulang got up quickly, bowed and clasped their fists together and said: "I obey you."

Wang Junlin continued to say solemnly: "You must be careful not to underestimate the enemy, and fight steadily. After occupying a place, you must first firmly control it, and then consider continuing to march based on intelligence. One of your strategic goals is to contain the Li Yuan Group West Road The large army and the large army guarding Chang'an made the enemy unable to support Hedong any more, and sent a cart of grain and grass."

The five quickly bowed and said yes.

Only then did Wang Junlin give instructions to Wu Si and Luo Shixin, who were stationed in Mayi County: "Most of your men and horses are cavalry. Don't rush to attack cities and land. Pay attention to the advantages of cavalry. Liang, Liu Hongji, and Pei Ji's 100,000 troops did their best to kill and wound the enemy's morale, and when they did not dare to go out to fight in the city, they would change their tactics according to the situation."

Wu Si and Luo Shixin hurriedly bowed and said yes.

Wang Junlin gave Shen Guoer another order: "The Military Intelligence Office should investigate the military situation in a timely manner, send the information to the armies as soon as possible, and use it when it is necessary to cooperate with the armies to fight according to the situation. In short , to minimize the casualties of our army while completing the target mission as much as possible.”

Shen Guoer calmly agreed: "My lord, don't worry, Guoer has already ordered everything, and there will be no mistakes."

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