The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 820 Li Shimin's Counterattack
"Dangdangdang!" Yang Tong and Pei Xingyan were fighting together on a piece of grass outside Changzhi New City.

There are two horse spears, one is wide open and closed, the other is tricky like a snake. Even people with such strength as Yin Mingyue, Wang Xiongdan, Cheng Chumo and others can't see it all. Their advance and retreat moves seem to hide infinite murderous intentions.

Yang Tong's martial arts is very similar to that of Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin. The three of them all pay attention to momentum, and they are strong before the battle.

Yang Tong's martial arts were brought to the extreme at this time, and he was fighting with Pei Xingyan fiercely with the sky splitting lance in his hands.And Pei Xingyan's martial arts is a fast word. The horse in his hand is like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter, like a dragon turning over, every time it will bring a spear shadow, and it will retreat with one blow. It will never leave any chance for the enemy, but he will not fight. life kind.

It is impossible to tell the winner in a short period of time, but if one of the parties makes a slight mistake, the loss of life seems to be only a hair's breadth.

The horses of the two men were not light, but their speed was extremely fast. Afterimages flashed in the air continuously, and amidst the continuous collision sound, the cyclone formed by the huge recoil force pushed the surrounding soldiers far away.

However, Yang Tong's martial arts are quite contradictory. In addition to domineering, there are also tricks of using strength to use force. After the two fought fiercely with Lily, Pei Xingyan only felt a strange force that made his horse push the direction of the head, heavily When it fell to the ground, Yang Tong changed from thrusting to thrusting, with strong force, he knocked Pei Xingyan off the horse's back.

With one blow, Pei Xingyan lost his combat effectiveness, which is not to say that he was not violent.

"I can block the storm-like move of the holy majesty, but I still can't do this weird 'leverage force'."

Pei Xingyan got up, patted the grass leaves on his body, and couldn't help laughing.

This smile is extremely free and easy, it is the atmosphere of a man who has no regrets in winning or losing.

"It's just a fluke!" Yang Tong's words are true, the two martial arts are equal, but at their level, often the comparison is not only the level of martial arts, but also the resourcefulness, reaction, and grasp of the battle situation.In the next match, Yang Tong is not sure whether he can win against Pei Xingyan.

The key is that Pei Xingyan's hammer for knocking people's foreheads is quite powerful, but he never used it when the two of them competed.If it was a life-and-death confrontation, if he suddenly hit him with a hammer, he would end up with broken bones even if he didn't die.

Regardless of life and death, there is no way to judge a person's true kung fu.

"Your Majesty, I heard that there are ten great generals in the Sui Dynasty?" asked Wang Xiongdan who was on the side.

Yang Tong nodded and said: "In Emperor Wen's time, there were indeed ten generals. They were Wei Zhao Wang Yang Shuang, Yang Su, Gao Yu, Yu Juluo, Han Qinhu, He Ruobi, Shi Wansui, Yu Zeqing, Daxi Changru , Changsun Sheng. But in the period of Emperor Wu, the top ten generals changed again, but Yang Su and Gao Jiong, who were always in the list, were not good at martial arts. Even when they went to the battlefield, they mainly commanded the army. Judging by military talent and overall record, not referring to individual martial arts. And our army also has ten generals, but these have nothing to do with the emperor or the court, they are selected by the soldiers themselves."

"Who are my top ten generals?" Wang Xiongdan asked again.

Yang Tong said with a smile: "Yaoshi, Shubao, Shixin, Xingyan, Yuchi, Laoniu, Wanjun, Wanche, Dingfang, and the last one is Mingyue. It can be seen that the top ten generals of this dynasty are not Martial arts are judged, but military merits and achievements are judged."

"What about the Holy One? Why is there no name for the Holy One?" Wang Xiongsheng asked.

"It's said to be judged by the record, don't you understand?" Pei Xingyan said speechlessly: "The countless battles that the Holy Majesty has commanded over the years have brought down two or three million enemy troops, at least two or three million enemy troops. After overturning so much, even if you put aside the status of the emperor, do you think it is appropriate to put the emperor in the ranks of generals?"

Wang Xiongdan's face turned red suddenly, and he asked again after a long while: "Not long ago, General Niu said that General Qin is the first in martial arts, General Luo and General Yuchi are the second, and General Pei is the third."

"He's talking nonsense." Pei Xingyan was furious.

Yang Tong couldn't help laughing, "Do you think you can do better than Xiao Luo?"

"Of course." Pei Xingyan said confidently: "My martial arts have improved again, and I can definitely put that guy down."

"But Xiao Luo also said that his martial arts have improved a lot. He also confidently said that he can easily defeat you and Yuchi, and even draw with Shubao. What do you think?"

"Then let's do it."

"Okay, at the end of the year, let's have a competition between you guys, and let Xie Yingdeng be included by the way."

"It's agreed in advance that everyone is not allowed to use arrows!" Thinking of Xie Yingdeng's elusive archery skills, Pei Xingyan felt a little apprehensive.

"Archery is Xie Yingdeng's most powerful skill, but you don't allow people to use arrows. Do you think it's fair? If he doesn't allow you, Shubao, and Yuchi to use spears, and Ronaldinho is not allowed to use guns, what do you say? General Du, Kan Leng, and Wang Xiongdan, father and son, want to rescue you to compete on a small boat, what do you say?" The story of two peaches killing three warriors has been passed down through the ages, and Yang Tong would not advocate that these mighty generals under his command fight for the title of the best in the world Broken blood, turned against each other.

"This..." Pei Xingyan became dizzy when he was on a boat, and compared with Mr. Du Fuwei on the boat, isn't it a gift?

Seeing that he was speechless, Yang Tong smiled and said, "It's hard to explain clearly about personal martial arts, and there's no way to be fair and just."

"..." Even though he didn't want to, Pei Xingyan had to admit this fact: let Du Fuwei fight with everyone on land, even if you easily win him, it seems like you won't win by force. As long as it is not the enemy of life and death, there is no way for everyone to distinguish between superior and inferior.

"Your Majesty." At this time, a Shura guard rushed over and bowed to Yang Tong: "General Wang sent a good news, our army has won a complete victory, and wiped out more than [-] defenders at the gate of Tubo and Peking University. Nearly [-] miscellaneous soldiers of Longkodo were annihilated on the banks of the Jiqu River, which not only wiped out the power of Tubo, but also seized countless gold, silver, livestock, and slaves from Tubo. Inspired by this, Subi, Nong, Ba, and Cai Bang fought In addition, [-]% of the property, livestock and slaves seized by the Four Kingdoms later belonged to the Sui Dynasty. The land with a radius of one hundred miles in the center is owned by the Sui Dynasty, and troops from various countries are not allowed to enter, and herdsmen are not allowed to graze.”

Hearing this, Yang Tong was deeply surprised.

Never would have thought that Wang Fubao would win [-]% of the property and an enclave for the Sui Dynasty. This was something he could not have imagined before, and he nodded in satisfaction, "Reply to General Wang, saying that after the capture of Luoxie City, it will be renamed Fubao City, and called that piece of land the 'Absolute Domain'."

"Here."

Shurawei saluted, and said: "My lord, a letter from the eagle has also been sent from the direction of Yizhou, saying that my mother is not coming."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, Yang Tong asked curiously: "Not coming? How do you say that?"

"Niang Shangnang originally planned to return to Tubo, but after Li Shimin heard the news, he went to Jiaochuan County, Wenshan County in person. I don't know how he talked with Niang Shangnang, and then Niang Shangnang brought his army to fight with Li Shimin. Went to Dangchang County. According to our spies, Niang Shangnang seems to have let Li Shimin say she surrendered." Shura Wei said hastily.

"The mother's bag that Li Yuan couldn't keep, was cut off by Li Shimin like this?" Yang Tong was speechless when he heard this.

Shura Wei replied: "Exactly."

Pei Xingyan said with a smile on the side: "Li Yuan is becoming more and more worthless. After arriving in Chengdu, he has really become an unsupportable idiot! What a waste."

"It's so true to say that." Yang Tong patted his forehead deeply, deeply worried about the IQ of his cheap father-in-law, and said with a wry smile: "The way for Li Shimin to leave his mother behind is nothing more than That is to say, Jiangyuan County is guarded by a large number of Sui troops. It is impossible for Niang Shangnang and his soldiers to return to Tubo safely. It is best to create a safe passage with the Tang army. Everyone can think of this way. However, Li Yuan was unable to retain Niang Shangnang. Then let these [-] elite soldiers go in vain, what is this waste?"

"My lord, what should we do?" Pei Xingyan was also very helpless. They had been waiting for their mother here for many days, but it turned out to be like this, which was really depressing.

Yang Tong frowned and thought for a while, then said solemnly: "Not long ago, Li Shimin expanded his army crazily. Well, he can't support so many troops at all, and now he has [-] mouths, he will become a pauper sooner or later. If it were you, what would you do?"

"Since we can't support so many troops, and we don't want to disarm them, we can only support them by fighting before the money and food are exhausted." Pei Xingyan said.

"That's right." Yang Tong pondered for a while, and said, "Li Shimin is going to fight, and he's going to fight me at the Sui Dynasty, but no matter whether he is conquering Hanchuan and Shunzheng in the east, or conquering Hechi and Hanyang in the north, he is facing a brutal battle. The good and bad troops can't conquer the Guanshan fortresses at all. And the [-] Tubo elite soldiers are not good at attacking fortifications. In this way, he has only two choices. One is to go northward by Baishui and attack Xue Wanche in Lintao; March into Jiangyuan County in the Songshan area, and then fight us."

"What the Holy Majesty said is very true." Pei Xingyan thought for a while and said, "But the general thinks that if they really want to fight, they should fight Lintao, because compared with our Jiangyuan, General Xue Wanche's troops are not many, Li Shimin's chances of winning Lintao Bigger."

"My opinion is exactly the opposite of yours. I think Li Shimin and Niang Shangnang will come to attack Jiangyuan County." Yang Tong said confidently.

Pei Xingyan was a little puzzled and said: "Jiangyuan has the Holy One and the First Army, so Li Shimin is looking for death when he fights Jiangyuan?"

"Don't you think the situation and mood of this Tubo army is very similar to the Xiaoguo army in the Jiangdu Rebellion?" Yang Tong asked back.

Pei Xingyan thought for a while, then nodded suddenly. He understood what Yang Tong meant: when Li Yuan rebelled, he was worried that he would not be able to defeat the Sui Dynasty, so he surrendered himself to the Turkic Khan Shibi, and asked Liu Wenjing to make a promise to Shibi: Entering Chang'an, the people's land entered the Tang Dynasty, and the gold, jade, silk and silk returned to the Turkic alliance. Therefore, a large-scale invasion began, and the Mayi battle broke out with the Sui Dynasty.And after this covenant was also passed on to Jiangdu, Xiaoguo's army was worried about his parents, wives and children in his hometown, and was eager to return home. This was used by Yu Wenhuaji, Sima Dekan, Yuan Min and others, thus starting the Jiangdu Rebellion.

On the way back, the Xiaoguo army faced the brave Wagang with countless elite soldiers and the resourceful Li Mi. Under the circumstances of continuous internal strife, insufficient food and grass, and a lack of morale, they were able to fight against the Wagang Diu who had the right time, place and people. He removed his armor and killed Zhai Rang, the leader, and Li Mi was almost shot to death.How did they achieve their amazing fighting power?One is the elite among the elite, and the other is caused by "returning to the teacher and not stopping them".

And these [-] Tubo troops who were in a foreign country were even more eager to go home than the Jiangdu Xiaoguo army. If the mother still stayed here, the Tubo army would probably rebel against Yang Guang just like Yang Guang.If Li Shimin took them to fight Lintao, although their journey back home was not the same, but it was not too far away, and they would not be able to show their desperate heart at all. In this way, Jiangyuan is indeed their first choice for attacking.

If the Sui army went to block the Tubo army's way home like the Wagang army, would they not work hard?
Moreover, purely in terms of military strength, the Jiangyuan Sui army, which had fought several major battles with the Tubo and Tuyuhun allied forces, did not have the upper hand. If Li Shimin's army added [-] elite Tubo soldiers who were willing to fight for their lives, Li Shimin's chances of winning were still great. .

More importantly, the coach here is Yang Tong. If Yang Tong is killed like the Xiaoguo army killed Zhai Rang, then even if the Li and Tang Dynasties cannot be reversed, at least there will be chaos in the Sui Dynasty for a period of time.

Thinking of this, Pei Xingyan's thoughts suddenly became clear, and he said solemnly: "The general understands, so we will soon have another big battle."

"It can't be helped. Who made Li Shimin have [-] more elite 'dead soldiers'? Who made my head a valuable head of the Sui Dynasty?" Yang Tong also smiled helplessly.

"Perhaps this is why Li Shimin succeeded in persuading Niang to accept the bag." Pei Xingyan mused.

"I think so too." Having said that, Yang Tong's eyes became brighter, and he saw a small black dot flying from the east, and the little black dot was getting closer and closer.

Several soldiers shouted, "My lord, it's Xinying from the east!"

A vigorous eagle hovered in the sky, and slowly landed at a place, Yang Tong smiled at Pei Xingyan and said, "It seems that I guessed it right."

Not long after.

The Eagle Letter was sent to Yang Yu by Shurawei, and the content was that Li Shimin's troops were gathering in Tongchang County.

Yang Tong immediately gave an order, "Tell me the order. After half an hour, the whole army will gather towards Yongzhi. At the same time, I will issue a battle order to the Ten Banners Army, and let the ten banner owners each bring [-] soldiers under their command to fight together."

"Obey!" The messengers left one after another.

Yang Tong pondered for a while, and said, "Xingyan."

"The end is here."

"I appointed you to be the commander of this battle."

"The general obeys orders." Pei Xingyan was overjoyed.

(End of this chapter)