The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 220
"The Central Plains has been very lively recently." Yang Tong smiled and turned the topic to China. Regarding the Turkic prisoners of war and slaves, as long as he sets the tone, other people will naturally do it, and there is no need to spend too much thought.

He now holds the military and political power in three and a half states, with a population of nearly 2000 million people eating and drinking. Naturally, he can't be as usual, meddling a little here and a little there. If he intervenes in everything, he will be exhausted to death .As a leader, it is enough for him to grasp the general direction and the overall situation, and it is enough to let his subordinates deal with it. The current local officials adhere to the concept of "solving problems by themselves", and generally do not report on trivial matters. Good general direction and supervision work, nothing will happen next.

Now Qin Qiong, Xue Wanche and others are learning to be independent, and Yang Tong himself is also learning how to be a good leader.

Every superior person handles things differently. Even if some people entrust him with the burden of the world, he can handle it with ease. Even if some people give him a small matter, he will be in a hurry and have no clue.

Yang Tong is exactly the former, and his strength lies in employing people.

Take the army as an example, the military is complicated and there are countless trivial matters, but Yang Tong does it with ease.He doesn't need every soldier, every army's management, he only needs to capture Wei Yunqi, Li Jing, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin... Duan Decao, Wang Fubao and other generals.

The same is true for government affairs, as long as Yang Tong grabs Yang Gongren and a few ministers and let them play independently under the system, he doesn't need to worry about everything.

With him or without him, the various institutions function as usual.

He is the kind of character who can be lazy and let go of power and never take a moment longer. It is not easy to tire him out.

Looking at the princes in the world, only Yang Tong can trust the civil and martial arts under his command so much, and assign everyone to a suitable position.

This is mainly because Yang Tong has sufficient trust in the ability and loyalty of civil and military officials.

"Wang Shichong and Li Mi's Putian battle brought subtle changes to the situation in the Central Plains." Fang Xuanling nodded.

In the Battle of Putian, Li Mi was defeated and lost, and the internal problems of the many factions of the Wei Army were exposed to the eyes of the world, which also let the world know that Li Mi was not that powerful in reality.It can be said that Li Mi lost not only dozens of generals and 10,000+ troops in this battle, but also the title of the overlord of the Central Plains!

The overlord is naturally invincible.

For example, Li Mi before, dominated Yanyu Qingxu, with more than 40 armors. Dou Jiande, Wang Bo, Du Fuwei, Li Zitong, Shen Faxing, and Lin Shihong were all pro-vassals. In terms of Li Mi's strength at the time, regardless of military strength or overall strength, The combination of many princes south of the Yellow River is difficult to compete with it. Li Mi was very prestigious at the time of his heyday. In fact, there is a chance to unify Yanyu Qing, Xu Jingyang and other southern regions.

It's a pity that a good hand was played badly because of a deadly fight with Wang Shichong. When everyone saw Li Mi's essence of being strong but capable, Dou Jiande and Du Fuwei took the lead in forming an alliance and launched a challenge to the former leader.

Speaking of it, Li Mi was clever but was misunderstood by cleverness. When Yang Xuangan rebelled against the Sui Dynasty, Li Mi offered three strategies: the best strategy was to send troops to Youzhou to cut off the retreat of Yang Guang, who was conquering Goguryeo in the east, and return to the Central Plains; the middle strategy was to go west. Go straight to Chang'an, occupy Guanzhong and Xutu Tianxia; the worst strategy is to directly besiege the eastern capital Luoyang.Yang Xuangan adopted Li Mi's bad strategy at that time, but failed within two months.

Li Mi himself said that besieging Luoyang, the eastern capital, was the worst strategy.However, all the time after he entered Wagang, he fought around Luoyang, the eastern capital, and honestly carried out the bad policy he made at the beginning.

Now not only can Luoyang, the eastern capital, be lost, but Luokou, the capital, and the families of many generals are lost. In the end, in the Battle of Putian, they were even thrown out of Xingyang County. Dou Jiande and Du Fuwei in the rear also jumped out to make trouble!If these two people join forces with Wang Shichong, the future of Li Mijun, who has many factions, will be uncertain.

Yang Tong originally thought that Li Mi could learn better, but who knew he was still so confident. Wang Renze took care of him in Jindi for more than a month, and he completely wiped out the situation. In the end, the morale of the army was lost, and the hearts of the various factions were fluctuating.

Although Li Mi is still so powerful, but sandwiched between Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, and Du Fuwei, the three major princes, does he still have a chance to come back?There must be, but some people with foresight have lost confidence in Li Mi, otherwise, Cheng Yaojin, Xie Yingdeng, and Huang Junhan, the three famous generals, would not have been settled by him with one word, thus becoming a member of the Sui Dynasty. members!And the other captured generals have now surrendered Wang Shichong, and turned around to become Li Mi's enemy!These are all symptoms of fallen trees and scattered hozens.

"Compared to the Central Plains, I'm more curious about the battle situation on Li Yuan's side!" Yang Tong sighed, "How did he do it?"

Fang Xuanling said: "What else can we do? Of course we are fighting on both fronts! But his current focus is on Li Xiaogong on the southern front. Judging by his hard work, he probably wants to cover his ears quickly while the Sui and Tang Dynasties contracts have not yet expired." It's too late to cover up and destroy Xiao Xian, and then enter the Central Plains."

Since the Sui army withdrew from the four counties of Hexi, Li Yuan's actions were not small. Li Shimin's soldiers went out of Longxi County, fought with Liang Shidu for more than 30 games, and finally won the two counties of Jincheng and Fanghan. It also aroused the bitterness of Xue Rengao and Xue Renyue brothers. Not only did they form an offensive and defensive alliance with Liang Shidu, but they also received strong support from the Tuyuhun and Qiang people. Now the Xue brothers have sufficient food and the support of [-] troops. Come back, give full play to the advantages of cavalry mobility, and severely damage Li Shimin's logistics, which made Li Shimin very annoyed and suffered a lot of losses.

Now that it's late autumn, the Hehuang area is extremely cold and can't fight anymore. The Tang army stopped entering Huahan County, and the Xue-Liang coalition army received strong support from Tuyuhun, temporarily solving the problem of food and grass. war.

Moreover, because of the reconciliation agreement signed by the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Sui army went to war with the Turks outside the territory, which also gave the Tang army sufficient strategic maneuvers, allowing the army whose morale gradually recovered to attack Xiao Xian without any worries.

While Lin Shihong took advantage of Li Yuan's attack on Xiao Mian, he first seized Yuzhang and occupied Yichun again. When Xiao Mian came back to his senses, he wanted to conquer Lin Shihong. However, taking advantage of Dong Jingzhen's transfer, he led the navy to go upstream, defeated Jiujiang prefect Qi Wang Zhang Xiu, and occupied Jiujiang and Qichun counties.

It was Xiao Mian's Zhongshu servant, Cen Wenwen, who helped Xiao Mian and persuaded Du Fuwei to send troops, which made Lin Shihong withdraw his troops, otherwise Changsha, Baling, and Jiangxia might not be safe.When Du Zhanwei went to war, he asked Shen Faxing to copy the chrysanthemum.

"In this way, the pattern of the world has changed drastically." Fang Xuanling said with a wry smile.

In the north there are Yang Tong and Li Yuan fighting for hegemony, in Hexi there is the Xueliang alliance, in the south there are Wang Shichong, Li Mi, Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei, Lin Shihong, Shen Faxing, and Li Zitong. As for the first anti-Sui Wang Bo, he has surrendered to Dou Jiande and returned home Retired, and Xiao Xian followed Li Tang and Lin Shihong's efforts, fought and failed repeatedly, and basically missed the world.

Among the remaining vassals, Yang Tong dominates the north, backed by Changbai Mountain-Daxing'anling-Yanshan-Yinshan-Daqingshan Great Wall, relying on the Yellow River natural barrier in the west and south, and occupying three and a half states; Shangjun, from Luzhou in the south, from Xiyang in the east, to Fuhan in the west, covers half of Yongzhou, half of Liangzhou, the whole of Bashu, and part of Jingzhou. Added up, the territory is not much less than that of Yang Tong.

Although Wang Shichong defeated Li Mi and gained a lot of benefits, his war potential was squeezed out. Today, the princes of the world have survived tenaciously after this round of war baptism, but he is the prince who needs to recuperate most.

Although Li Mi is now the strongest among the southern princes, he is unstable internally and has weak control over the territory.Ever since he was defeated in Putian, he lost the oppression of several princes in the south, and everyone became active. If Yang Yu and Li Yuan had no time to look south, the south would take the lead In the hands of both Yang Tong and Li Yuan, it will be much more difficult to go south after that. This is what Yang Tong and Fang Xuanling are more worried about.

Yang Tong pointed at the map and said, "Xiao Xian has been in Jingxiang for many years, and he is also a representative of the Jiangnan nobles. His power is quite stable. There are many talents in Jingxiang, so there is no need to worry about being wiped out in a short time. "

"As for Shen Faxing and Li Zitong..." Yang Tong shook his head and said, "There is nothing to praise, but Lin Shihong's recent performance is remarkable."

Fang Xuanling said: "Lin Shihong's foundation is too shallow. After this battle, Xiao Mian must be very afraid of him, and Du Fuwei has already bared his fangs. If Lin Shihong pushes too much, I'm afraid it will make Xiao Mian and Du Fuwei come back. Kill him first, so Lin Shihong seems to be arrogant now, but presumably he will not move again, and this is the time to consolidate his power."

Yang Tong continued: "Dou Jiande joined forces with Du Fuwei to expose his ambitions that are not under Li Mi's control. He has already withdrawn Li Mi's attention. If I were Li Mi, I would reach an armistice agreement with Wang Shichong and deal with Dou Jiande wholeheartedly, so that Qing Xu Erzhou into your own map."

Fang Xuanling nodded and said: "The princes in the south cannot be divided simply by the enemy and us, so no matter how chaotic the south is, the situation in the south will not be cleared up too soon. Although Li Yuan has developed rapidly, he still made the mistake of eager for quick success. After the beginning of spring, Tuyuhun behind Xue and Liang will become Li Yuan's biggest trouble."

Fang Xuanling's evaluation of Li Yuan, Yang Tong was noncommittal and would not comment.

First of all, Li Yuan is a villain who is only interested in profit, and has no national righteousness in his eyes.

As we all know, Li Yuan had shamelessly colluded with the Turks before he raised his troops in Jinyang, and exchanged the support of the Turks at the price of professing his vassal to the Turks. If it was shocking, he also promised to cede Wuyuan and Yulin to the Turks.This kind of blatant traitorous behavior also set a very bad precedent in Chinese history. Later, during the Anshi Rebellion in history, Tang Suzong also used this method to borrow troops from the Huihe people. Tang Suzong and the Huihe people agreed: "Kecheng (Chang'an) ) day, the land, scholars and common people will return to the Tang Dynasty, and the gold, silk and children will return to the Hehe".After the Huihe people captured Chang'an, they looted Chang'an and left an empty city for the Tang Dynasty.Wang Fuzhi said in "Du Tong Jian Lun": "Tang raised troops and used Turks, so later generations learned from them, using Huihe to punish An and Shi, using Shatuo to break the yellow nest, and Shi Jingtang donated to Khitan to usurp, cut off Yan and Yun, Lose old coins, and be sick of China and kill yourself." Even Wu Sangui later learned this trick, letting Qing soldiers enter the pass to fight against Li Zicheng.

Now Li Yuan not only surrendered to the Turks, but also changed the flags of the army. The flags of the Central Plains Dynasty are generally dark. Only the northern peoples like to use white. And white is exactly the color of peach blossoms, "red and white complement each other like a garden", and it looks like peach blossoms from a distance.

Would someone like Li Yuan fight Tuyuhun to the end?Yang Tong felt that it was more difficult than a sow climbing a tree, so he couldn't expect Li Yuan to fight Tuyuhun to the death.

Secondly, Li Yuan moved from Shangluo County to Jingxiang, obviously following the strategy of giving up the competition in the Central Plains and developing to the south.On this point, it should be said that Li Yuan has a very strategic vision. After years of banditry and wars, the Central Plains has become a sparsely populated red field. The society has suffered great trauma. It will take ten years to restore vitality.Thanks to the protection of Yang Guang, the south has not experienced too many wars, and Xiao Xian, Lin Shihong, Shen Faxing, Li Zitong and others are weak, but a little bit stronger—Jianghuai Du Fuwei, but it is difficult to be Li Yuan opponent.

Since the Northern Dynasties, Guanzhong has been the main source of troops for successive dynasties. The army itself is strong. In addition to the Battle of Goguryeo and the Yangzhou Rebellion, a large number of soldiers fled back to Guanzhong, making Li Tang an extremely good source of troops.What's more important is that Guanlong's rich and powerful occupy five points of the wealth in the world. They have a lot of money and food savings and powerful servants. The army is huge.

The four elements of climate, location, harmony, and wealth are the fundamental reasons why Li Tang was able to quickly defeat various forces in history, and it was not due to Li Shimin's personal talent. The battle at Hulaoguan.In that battle in history, Li Shimin led 40 soldiers and horses to resist Dou Jiande's [-] troops, and fought against him.In the end, the battle was successful.In the previous life, Yang Tong was also stunned by this astonishing result, but in the Sui Dynasty, he realized that it is not difficult to achieve such a result, and Yang Tong has done a lot. The enemy is too weak. If Yang Tong, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Pei Xingyan, and Yu Chigong were to lead the [-] Xuanjia Army to fight against Li Mi's [-] or [-] miscellaneous troops carrying wooden knives and hoes, he would only need to wedge himself into Li Mi's army. , Still able to make a shocking creation of [-] breaking [-].If you really have the ability, you Li Shimin take [-] elites to fight with [-] to [-] Turkic soldiers, and the Turkic people will teach him how to behave.

The current history has changed beyond recognition, and because they deliberately suppressed the development of Li Tang, they were unable to enter the Central Plains and could only turn to the south. Although they cannot be compared with the Tang Dynasty in history, the strength of Li Tang with the full support of the Guanlong dignitaries is still incomparable Xiaoshi, if he wants to unify the world, his biggest enemy is Li Tang.If Li Tang gets the south, his strength will be greatly improved, which is quite unfavorable for him.

He can underestimate Li Yuan and his son, but if he underestimates the huge consortium behind the Li family, then he doesn't know how Yang Tong was played to death by others, so since he is here, he should teach Li Yuan a profound lesson, teach him What does my cheap father-in-law mean by being low-key?

(End of this chapter)