Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1279 Battle Dragon City
Chapter 1277: Battle Dragon City
The reason why the Sui Army can compete with the Tang Army is mainly because of the three super generals Yang Jian, Lu Bu and Hou Yi, but now the three of them have left the Sui Army together. For the Sui Army, it is almost like losing Guanzhong Even bigger.

After Yang Guang learned that Lu Bu and Hou Yi had also left, he regretted letting Yang Jian go. He thought it was his tolerance that gave Lu Bu and Hou Yi the courage to leave. Does not belong to the Sui army.

Lu Bu is Ding Yuan's adopted son, and Hou Yi is the general of the first emperor Tuogu. They were all forced to surrender to Dong Zhuo, and this also laid a hidden danger 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, that may not be the case, not to mention that even Yang Jian is dead now.

You know, even Yang Guang's father, Yang Jian, never really convinced Lu Bu and Hou Yi. They just used each other and took 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 caught in the whirlpool of public opinion because of Dong Zhuo's death, so they had to serve Yang Jian temporarily.

After Yang Jian's death, Yang Guang succeeded to the throne and became King of Sui. If Yang Guang could win the duel with Li Shimin and eventually unify Kansai, then Lu Bu and Hou Yi might follow the trend to serve Yang Guang, but Yang Guang still lost to Li Shimin. Naturally, they will not continue to work for Yang Guang.

In general, although Yang Guang lost the three super generals Yang Jian, Lu Bu, and Hou Yi, he still has: Yang Su, Gao Ying, Wu Yunzhao, Shi Wansui, He Ruobi, Li Huanzhang, Yao Gonglin, Zhi Jian, Guo Shen Wait for civil and military ministers to assist.

With Yang Guang's current lineup of civil and martial arts, 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 dominate Liangzhou.

Correspondingly, Li Shimin's situation is much better than Yang Guang's.

By overthrowing Yang Jian, Li Shimin not only gained the allegiance of the Liang faction, but also gained the loyalty of many Sui faction generals. Now he has talents from the three branches of the Tang and Sui Dynasty under his command, which can be described as a wealth 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...

Cool type: Hua Xiong, Li Jue, Guo Si, Niu Fu, Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu, Hu Cheer, Hu Chier...

Sui lineage: Yu Wenshu, Xin Wenli, Yujuluo, Shang Shitu, Zuo Tiancheng...

After Yang Jian returned to Yang's house, Li Shimin went to Yang's house to recruit Yang Jian in person, regardless of previous suspicions, while Yang Biao spoke good words to Li Shimin.

In the end, Li Shimin and Yang Jian made a gentleman's agreement, promising Yang Jian that he would never let him "become an enemy of Yang Guang", not only subdued Yang Jian, a peerless general who is not inferior to Li Yuanba, but also brought Kang Anyu and Zhang Boshi with him. God will.

Therefore, in terms of talent lineup, the talents under Li Shimin's command are definitely second only to Qin Hao's princes in terms of quality and quantity. A new Kansai overlord is about to stand in Kansai again.

Although Li Shimin inherited Dong Zhuo's foundation, he did not plan to inherit the banner of "Liang". Instead, like Yang Jian, he wanted to build his own power, Tang.

Yang Jian's change of Liang to Sui was opposed by all the generals of Liang, while Li Shimin's change of Liang to Tang was supported by everyone.

First of all, after experiencing such a big internal conflict, the generals of the Liang family also accepted the fact that Dong Zhuo was dead. They could not immerse themselves in the glory of the past, and they 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 family are not as resistant to changing the banner as before.

In the end, Li Shimin's status as the son-in-law of Dong Zhuo enabled the generals of the Liang family to accept a change of flag.

After all, the new Tang army was built on the basis of the Liang army, so Li Shimin wanted to completely eliminate Dong Zhuo's influence and put his own brand on it. This is definitely not something that can be done in the short term.

But Li Shimin is not in a hurry, everything is going with the flow, and he is going to boil the frog in warm water to moisten things silently.

After Li Shimin unified Yongzhou, he planned to send troops to capture Liangzhou immediately, but he 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 entering Liangzhou at this time:
1. The previous infighting consumed a lot of vitality in Guanzhong, and the Tang army's military strength was greatly damaged, and the army's mentality was determined, so it was really not suitable to fight again;
2. There are four forces in Liangzhou, Yang Guang, Ma Teng, Han Sui, and Qiang. The strength of the major warlords is not weak. Even if they send troops, they may not be able to occupy Liangzhou, and they will only lose.

3. The Qiang King Yelu Abaoji will never sit back and watch the Tang army dominate Liangzhou, and will definitely turn against and help the Liangzhou warlords when necessary;

4. Sooner or later, the various forces in Liangzhou will surely break out into a war. When they consume each other almost, the Tang army will be able to easily capture Liangzhou as they march westward.

To sum up the above four points, let Li Shimin understand that for the current Tang army, the most important thing is not to expand the territory, but to recuperate.

The Tang army in Guanzhong went on strike and truce. While watching the Hetao battle, they also began to recuperate with all their strength and sort out the army's internal affairs.

Li Shimin did not take advantage of the victory to attack Liangzhou, but chose to recuperate. This surprised Zhou Yu in Hangu Pass. He even suspected that Li Shimin would take the opportunity to recapture Hangu Pass.

However, the current Qin army is not at war in Sizhou or Jingbei. Even if Li Shimin takes advantage of this to lead the army eastward, the Qin army 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 stopped his troops, not only did he not invade Hangu Pass, but he donated [-] shi of grain to the Qin army, saying that it was aid for the Qin army to fight against aliens.

The Battle of Hetao attracted the attention of the princes of the world, but ignored the remote land of Yizhou, which was also engaged in a war against foreign races.

In this battle, there was no assistance from the princes along the way, but the coalition forces of Liu Ji and Liu Yu still won the victory and repelled Chi You's Nanman army in Yizhou today.

At the same time, before Bai Qi was about to lead the army to Yinshan City, the decisive battle on the grassland broke out ahead of schedule.

Although Temujin ordered all the tribes south of Dragon City to move north, the relocation of the entire tribe was not that simple. Moreover, no matter how fast their migration speed was, it could not be faster than that of Hanqi.

In just ten days, the two cavalry of Huo Qubing and Zhuge Liang, who went out of the fortress, successively destroyed a large tribe, six medium-sized tribes, and eleven small tribes in Yuanmeng, killing a total of more than 30 Yuanmeng herdsmen Nearly thousands of miles of fertile pastures.

The grassland south of Longcheng was completely reduced to scorched earth.

(End of this chapter)