Turbulent Times Chapter 1707: War against Tang

Over the past year, the court of Da'an Kingdom and the planned six legions have been preparing for the war intensely. As the time for the war against the Tang Kingdom approaches, the court of Da'an Kingdom, the military and civil and military officials inside and outside the army are all excited.

No way, Tang is the last territory to unify the world, and the meaning of defeating Tang is completely different from defeating Goguryeo.

Not only because the Tang State itself was a part of the Chinese dynasties, but also because the Tang State occupied Guanzhong, the land of Longxing, and even occupied the two capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang, which have the most capitals in the past dynasties so far.

You must know that Nanjing, Beijing, Kaifeng and other ancient capitals were established as Kyoto by the later dynasties after the Tang Dynasty.

Before this, King Wen of Zhou in the Western Zhou Dynasty had already built Fengjing where Chang'an City was located, and moved his subjects from Qishan Zhouyuan here.

After King Wu destroyed Shang and established the Zhou Dynasty, Fengjing (Chang'an) was still the capital.

In Xianyang, the capital of the Qin Dynasty, most of the area of ​​Afang Palace is actually in Chang'an.

Liu Bang established the Western Han Dynasty in Chang'an, with Guanzhong as his capital. He took the meaning of the local Chang'an township and named it "Chang'an", which means "long-term peace and stability".

In the first year of the founding of the new dynasty, Wang Mang proclaimed himself emperor and changed the capital Chang'an to "Chang'an".

In the second year of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty issued an order to build a new capital, Daxing City, at the site of today's Chang'an City in the southeast of Han Chang'an City.

Looking at Luoyang again, in the early years of the Xia Dynasty, Yu designated Kyushu, and Heluo belonged to the ancient Yuzhou. Luoyang was the center of the establishment and activities of the Xia Dynasty.

The Shang Dynasty was established. Xibo, the capital of Shang Tang, was actually the land of Luoyang.

After the Yin Dynasty in the Western Zhou Dynasty, in order to control the eastern region, he began to build a national capital in Luoyang.

In the first year of King Ping of Zhou, King Ping of Zhou moved eastward to Luoyi, which was called the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

In the fifth year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang built the Han Dynasty, and the capital was Luoyang at the beginning, and then moved to Chang'an.

In the first year of Guangwu Jianwu in the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu made Luoyang his capital and changed Luoyang to Luoyang.

In the first year of Huangchu, Cao Pi, Emperor Wen of Wei, made Luoyang his capital and changed Luoyang to Luoyang.

In the first year of Taishi, the Western Jin Dynasty took the Wei Dynasty, and Luoyang was still the capital.

In the second year of Taiyan, the Northern Wei Dynasty established Luozhou in Luoyang.

In the eighteenth year of Taihe, Emperor Xiaowen moved his capital to Luoyang.

In the first year of Daye, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty moved his capital to Luoyang, and built Luoyang City to the east of the Eastern Zhou King City and 18 miles west of the old city of the Han and Wei Dynasties.

In short, the status of Chang'an City and Luoyang City in the hearts of the people of the world is really special. If the whole of China is regarded as a dragon, Chang'an City and Luoyang City are the heart.

In fact, everyone in Da'an Kingdom knew that Yangzhou could not become the capital of Da'an Kingdom.

In fact, Wang Junlin also thinks so, staying in Yangzhou for a long time, it is too easy for the court to fall into a life of luxury and corruption, to make the army rotten, and to kill their ambitions.

As far as all the generals are concerned, whoever can capture Luoyang City or Chang'an City is a great achievement that has been passed down through the ages.

Nowadays, among the civil and military officials of Da'an, there are like clouds of fierce generals, and among the virtuous ministers, there are also capable ones, and even ambitious ones can be found everywhere.

It has only been two years since the founding of the Da'an Kingdom, and the rich and powerful have already been divided into ranks and ranks, waiting for the day of reunification

After the game, it will be very difficult to break through these three-six-nine levels in the next few years.

So, for the civil and military officials of Da'an, especially for ordinary soldiers, attacking Tang is their last opportunity to greatly increase or obtain titles and official titles.

In addition, a few dark horses have emerged in the court recently, and they will be able to obtain a considerable title when the next National Day ceremony is held. Their deeds have inspired a large number of young officials and ordinary soldiers.

For example, sneaking into Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, poisoning the Goguryeo crown prince, prime minister and general, as well as more than a hundred high-ranking generals of the garrison, so that the bear army can easily break through Pyongyang, directly causing the situation in Goguryeo to be smooth sailing The deputy director of the Department of Security Devices and Drugs made Mu Pipi.

So, everyone is gearing up and waiting for this day to happen, waiting for Wang Junlin to issue the final order to send troops.

Especially those who think they have extraordinary skills and have a few brushes, they plan secretly early on, and take the initiative to grab tasks and offer advice to officials.

In short, Da'an Kingdom has a strong atmosphere of seeking war from top to bottom, and everyone's fighting spirit is overwhelming.

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In the third year of Tianxiang, on September 11th, under the anticipation of all civil and military officials and the whole army, His Majesty Wang Junlin, the emperor of Da'an Kingdom, was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the military mansion, Li Jing, who was divided into east, west and south. Lu Dajun sent troops to Tang.

The army on the East Road is led by Qin Qiong, the two major armies of Xuanfeng and Taiyuan, with a total of 100,000 people. The two armies set off from their respective garrisons and assembled in front of Tongguan, the gate of the Middle East of Guandong, on September 14, and launched an attack on Tongguan.

The army on the west road was divided into two groups with 100,000 soldiers from the Wagang Army led by Xu Shiji and 100,000 soldiers from the Western Army led by Shangguan Hu. At the same time, Xu Shiji led the 50,000-man Wagang Legion to set off from Hanzhong, cross the Qinling Mountain Road, and attack the Chencang area.

On the other hand, Li Jing led Yuchi Jingde's Tiger Army and Lu Han's Iron Spear Army with 100,000 soldiers from the Central Plains to approach Luoyang.

To be honest, this time, Wang Junlin didn't use many troops, only 300,000 people, but there were 200,000 field troops in other legions that were already in the first level of combat readiness. place.

However, due to the special terrain of Guanzhong, the east and west are blocked by Tongguan City and Heifengguan City respectively. If you want to enter Guanzhong, you must break through these two gateways.

The terrain of these Xiongguan Passes is dangerous, and the Tang State has invested a lot of manpower, material resources, financial resources and troops in the past few years. These two Xiongguan Passes have been built into Iron Passes, and the walls are nearly ten feet high. Whether it is the thickness of the city wall or the thickness of the city gate, it is no longer easy for explosives to explode.

Moreover, each of the cities is stationed with a total of 100,000 troops, and there are generals who have rich experience in defending the city and stand alone.

But at the same time, because the Tang State has placed high hopes on these two great passes, if the Da'an army can break through, it will deal a great blow to Tang State, especially the morale of the army will definitely be greatly affected.

Compared to Qin Qiong on the east road and Xu Shiji on the west road who encountered Xiongguan at the beginning, it was different when Li Jing from the south attacked Luoyang.

Under Li Jing's personal command, relying on all kinds of sharp siege weapons, and the previous Security House,

With the clear and complete intelligence support from the Military Intelligence Office, within thirteen days, Li Jing, Yuchi Jingde, and Lu Han led the army to break through the seven military strongholds and three county towns that were built in the south of Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty in two or three years. Attacked under Luoyang City, surrounded the east, west and south sides of Luoyang City, and began to attack Luoyang City.

What I have to say is that compared to the Liang Kingdom that attacked the southern state two years ago, nearly half of the cities surrendered directly or were attacked by people from the Security Office and the Military Intelligence Office. Among the village and the three county towns, only one county town opened the gates and surrendered directly after the soldiers approached the city.

It can be seen from this that the struggle in the ideological field, which is always unfavorable for Da'an, has greatly reduced the effect on Tang.

This is related to the fact that Li Shimin realized this many years ago and took a lot of countermeasures.

For example, after taking power in a mutiny and rebellion, Li Shimin first ordered the killing of the Xiaoyu Theater and Wulin Guild in the territory, and even banned all products exported by Da'an Kingdom such as glass companies.

Furthermore, from the very beginning of the war, Li Shimin, in command of the Tang Kingdom, had a clear view of the combat power of his own army, and set a grand strategy of focusing on defense, relying on cities and military villages to consume the troops of Da'an Kingdom, and prolong the war. The time of the war, thus increasing the burden on the supply of grain and grass in Da'an.

Then, it was waiting for Xiao Yu, who was placed high hopes by Li Shimin and the No. 1 puppet, to be able to do things with the Nanzhao tribe in the south of Da'an at a critical moment, looking for a chance to defeat Da'an.

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In addition to the south army led by Li Jing, Xu Shiji, the west army, did not attack Heifeng Pass honestly. Instead, he let Shangguanhu stare at Heifeng Pass. Divide into five routes, take the mountain road and sweep all the way behind Heifeng Pass, occupying all the villages and towns, and also captured two army villages, which can be regarded as breaking the back road from Heifeng Pass to Chencang.

Xu Shiji's tactics are actually similar to when Wang Junlin led the Far Eastern Army to attack Hedong and Guanzhong in three ways five years ago. So he led 3,000 special forces masters to cross mountains and ridges, cut off the back road of Longguan where the city of Heifengguan is now, and defended it for more than three months, resulting in the lack of food and grass in Longguan, and finally Longguan was breached.

However, with the experience and lessons learned from the breach of Longguan five years ago, how can the Tang Dynasty be unprepared? In the past few years, a large amount of food and grass has been hoarded in Heifengguan, which can completely feed the 100,000 people in Heifengguan city. Last year long.

Xu Shiji had already learned about this through the spies of the Military Intelligence Office, but he still adopted the same tactics, but he had different considerations.

Shangguanhu received Xu Shiji's order not to ask for the capture of Heifeng Pass, but to keep him stared down. As long as the people of Heifeng Pass dare to come out to fight in the field, they must be beaten back.

After Xu Shiji led the Wagang Army to cut off the back route of Heifeng Pass, he did not join forces with Shangguan Hu to attack Heifeng Pass, but left 10,000 troops to continue to garrison Heifeng Pass and Heifeng Pass. The army villages and villages between Chencang continued to block the road from Chencang to Heifengguan, and he led the main force of the 40,000 Wagang Legion directly to the east to attack Chencang County.

As long as Chencang County is captured, Xu Shiji can directly enter Guanzhong, enter the 800 Li Plain of the Qinling Mountains, and the distance from Chang'an City is only more than 700 Li.