Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 735 Two Tigers Fight
In front of Li Yuan, there are now two choices.

One is to bring Shen Guang Chen Leng, who is loyal to the imperial court, back to Jiangdu City, defeat the rebellious minister Yu Wenhua and Sima Dekan, and take back Jiangdu.The second is that he simply found an opportunity to leave the Jiangbei camp, go to the opposite Du Fuwei military camp, and vote for Luo Cheng.

If the emperor hadn't died, Li Yuan might really have gone to the Du Fuwei barracks on the opposite side. After all, the emperor couldn't be helped if he died like that.

But now Yu Wenhuaji and others have killed the emperor, and Chen Leng and the others also said that they are willing to help the emperor's coffin back to Xijing.

From Li Yuan's point of view, this seemed like an opportunity.

As long as you can leave Jiangdu, which is surrounded by siege, you may not have no chance to return to Guanzhong, and he is now the servant of the Huangmen, who is in charge of political affairs. The right servant of Jiangdu shot Yuan Chong and was killed by the rebels. In Taiyuan, the Minister of Internal History came to protect his son in Pengcheng.

If Jiangdu can be captured, then the Jiangdu court will have the final say.

As long as you can return to Guanzhong, everything is possible.

Especially in the troubled times, Guanzhong is a treasure land, with both the rich Guanzhong Plain and the danger of the four fortresses, it is an absolute foundation for the emperor.

To become the foundation of the emperor in Beijing, there must be a land of dragon prosperity.And this land of Longxing has to meet three conditions, the first is to be able to defend it.

A place like Jiangdu cannot be defended, and there is no danger on all sides, so even Yang Guang wants to go to Danyang Jiangning.

But although Jiangning was also the capital of several dynasties, it was far behind Guanzhong.

There are four fortresses in Guanzhong, and it is at a corner, so it is definitely easy to defend and difficult to attack.

In addition to being able to guard, Guanzhong can also support.

Being able to support is also the key to the achievement of the emperor's hegemony, otherwise what's the use of being able to defend, if you can't support the army, you won't be able to become powerful.The Guanzhong Plain is extremely rich, so it is absolutely no problem to raise soldiers.

I think Qin and Han were based in Guanzhong, but when Yu Wentai and others occupied a corner of Guanzhong, they forcibly created the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Great Sui and the Three Dynasties in the end.

Can keep, can support.

Still have to be able to get out.

Guanzhong is also in line with this point.

It can not only defend, but also fight out.

It is really said that the best place to keep and raise is actually in the middle of Shu, which is the place that is really easy to keep and raise, but it is difficult to get out of the middle of Shu.

The road to Shu is difficult, so it is difficult for others to attack him, and it is also difficult for him to attack others. Because of this, in the troubled times of Shu, it is very easy to become a separatist force, but it is extremely difficult to come out of Shu to rule the world.Even during the time of the Three Kingdoms, the civil servants of the Shu Han general Qian Yun were eventually destroyed by Wei.

The land of Hedong can be raised and defended well, but it is inferior to Guanzhong in terms of defense. Moreover, Hedong is facing three sides of attack from Guanzhong, Henan, and Hebei, and there are even grassland barbarians in the north. Therefore, Hedong is a four-war It is very capable of accumulating strength.

compare to.

Li Yuan felt that Liaodong, where Luo Cheng was based, was actually very poor.

Liaodong can be defended and attacked, but it is difficult to raise.

Because the population of Liaodong is too small, the population is only a few million until now, and the slaves are still counted.Such a small population base meant that it was difficult for Luo Cheng to raise too many soldiers.

After all, it takes at least twenty farmers to raise one soldier normally.

To raise 200 soldiers, you need 200 million farmers, and 500 million does not refer to the population, but refers to small male farmers. This means that there must be a population of 800 million or even [-] million to support [-] soldiers.

Right now, Luo Cheng hasn't entered the customs to fight, so there are not many problems in this aspect.

If he enters the border to fight and cannot quickly capture the Central Plains, once he gets stuck, this will become a fatal problem.

Li Yuan recalled that Yu Wentai followed Hou Mochen into the Guan to suppress the rebellion, but in the end he became self-reliant in Guan, and then seized the world instead.

Maybe I have a chance too.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan finally made a decision and made up his mind.

"The two generals are loyal, and I, Li Yuan, as the prime minister, naturally can't say anything. Let's ask the two generals to gather troops and horses immediately. Let's go back to Jiangdu to quell the chaos and rebellion. Da Sui!"

Seeing this, Chen Ling and Shen Guang bowed their hands together.

"We dare not follow the order of the prime minister!"

present.

Li Yuan and the second general summoned a large battalion of soldiers and horses, and conducted a brief swearing-in against the thief.

After counting the crimes of the rebels, Li Yuan did not forget to promise many powerful benefits.

"After suppressing the rebellion in Jiangdu City, all the money and silk in Jiangdu's treasury will be rewarded to the soldiers who put down the rebellion."

"After the chaos is over, help the emperor's coffin back to Beijing."

Facing the generals of the northern and northern battalions mainly in Luoyang and the Jianghuai area, Li Yuan didn't say to return to Chang'an, but to return to Beijing, so everyone understood it as returning to Luoyang.

Fifty thousand soldiers and horses in the Jiangbei battalion, the whole army set off from the camp and returned to Jiangdu.

At this time, Yu Wenhuaji was still forcing Empress Xiao to make Yang Hao the emperor, but Empress Xiao refused.

Yu Wenhua said, "Please think twice."

A Xiao Guo hurried over, "General."

Yu Wenhuaji glared at him, and he immediately changed his words, "To the Prime Minister, Li Yuan and Chen Leng and Shen Guang are back!"

Yu Wenhuaji's complexion changed drastically, and he hurriedly turned and left.

Seeing him leaving in a panic, Empress Xiao finally felt a little more at ease. A court lady cried to the empress, "Li Xiangguo finally brought troops to seek rebellion."

But Empress Xiao didn't seem happy.

The emperor was murdered, and all the clan and relatives of the emperor who accompanied him were killed, leaving only Qin Wang Yang Hao.

Even if Li Yuan killed Wang Shichong and other rebels, so what if he took back Jiangdu, it still wouldn't change the current situation in the world.

Da Sui was over, she knew very well in her heart.

Under the twilight.

Li Yuan led [-] soldiers and horses to the city of Jiangdu.

Yu Wenhua and others went to the city to supervise the battle in person, as if they were facing a big enemy.

Li Yuan sent hundreds of soldiers with loud voices to the city and shouted to the top of the city, announcing the crimes of Yu Wenhua and others, and at the same time loudly saying that only the rebellious leaders should be punished. Not to blame, but also said that after the rebellion is eliminated, the emperor's coffin will be returned to Beijing.

"Don't listen to their nonsense, shoot me an arrow!" Yu Wenhua said angrily.

Because it was dark, Li Yuan just sent people over to yell and scold for a while, then withdrew his troops and retreated ten li to set up camp, preparing to fight again tomorrow.

Sixty miles away.

Du Fuwei originally planned to send another army to capture Shanyang in the north of Jiangdu, in order to cut off Pengcheng's soldiers and horses who came to protect his children.

Unexpectedly, it was reported that there was a big movement in the Jiangbei camp camped [-] miles away.

"Explore again!"

Exploring horses keeps inquiring about returns.

When he finally heard that the Jiangbei camp had withdrawn to the east, he was still a little surprised.

At this time, another letter of military information was sent.

"It turns out that Jiangdu mutiny, Yu Wenhua, Sima Dekan and others actually killed the king and captured Jiangdu City. Li Yuan and the others went back to Jiangdu City to seek rebellion."

"Commander, shall we pursue Li Yuanjun?" the first general asked.

Du Fuwei snorted, "Let Li Yuan lead the army back to Jiangdu, wouldn't it be better for us to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight?"

"When two tigers fight, there is bound to be an injury, and it won't be too late for us to take action!" Kan Leng also said on the side.

(End of this chapter)