Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 620 Competing in the Central Plains (79)

"The Tang captives invaded Luoyang, and we, the Chinese people, should fight against the captives together!"

Before the expedition, Yan Ming offered sacrifices to heaven and earth, and the objects of sacrifice were Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, and Wang Changzhi.

"Back then King Wei Huo was able to fight against the Xiongnu, and we can also fight against the Tang captives!"

"This battle must be won!"

Tang Junbing surrounded Luoyang, and Wang Shichong sent an envoy to ask Yanming for help.

As the leader of the alliance, Yan Ming naturally cannot just sit back and watch the allies be wiped out.

Although Yan Guo often sells his teammates and uses his teammates to consume the enemy's national power, when all his teammates are dead and the enemy's blood remains, Yan Guo can go up to harvest.

This was the case when dealing with the Sui Dynasty. After the Sui Dynasty wiped out all the allies of the Yan State, the Sui Dynasty’s own national power was almost exhausted, and it was no longer able to conquer the Yan State. Forcibly conquering the Yan State, it could only lead to domestic rebellions in the end. .

For the rising Tang Dynasty, Yan State also wants to adopt the same method. If it can directly defeat the Tang Dynasty, it is naturally the best, but if it cannot be defeated, then drain the strength of allies and use them to consume The national power of the Tang Dynasty, after the Tang Dynasty wiped out all the allies of the Yan State, was already unable to conquer the Yan State.

The Yan Kingdom, on the other hand, can take advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains to return to the Central Plains and establish a blood-sucking system again.

In this expedition to rescue Luoyang, the Allied Army has a total of 30 troops, of which Yan Guo actually dispatched 30 troops, and the remaining [-] troops are from other allies.

Seeing that a group of allies are not interested in helping other countries, they are all selfish and only want to save their troops and only want to protect their own country, Yan Ming encouraged: "No matter how you say it, the battle strength is 30 vs. [-]. The advantage lies with us. !"

In the end, under the circumstances of great advantages, all the allies of the Allied Army were willing to go to Luoyang, defeat Li Tang, and go to the prosperous place of Luoyang to burn, kill and loot.

The mob is like this, they can only fight against the wind, not against the wind.

When the wind is down, you can still have morale, thinking that you can burn, kill and loot after you win easily, and run faster than one when the wind is headed.

Since ancient times, the coalition forces have been mobs, and the anti-Dong coalition forces are a typical example, as are the allied forces.

Three months later
When Yanming's 30 troops arrived outside Hulao Pass, they heard that Wang Shichong's 1 troops had been defeated by Li Shimin's [-] troops. At this moment, there were only less than [-] troops defending Luoyang City, relying on the solid city defense Resist Tang Jun.

"Wang Shichong is a waste, but he has the nerve to associate with my Yan family!"

Hearing the news, Yan Ming cursed secretly.

Previously, in order to please the Yan State, Wang Shichong claimed to be a branch of the Liaodong Wang family scattered in the Central Plains, and he was related to the Yan State's royal family and nobles.

"I, Wang Shichong, am a relative of Lord Yan!"

Although Yan Ming knew that Wang Shichong's "Wang" was a surname change, he didn't bother to expose it. Anyway, the Yan family had long since stopped using "Wang" as their surname.

As the influence of the Yan Kingdom in the Central Plains grew, more and more people began to cling to the Liaodong Wang Clan, claiming that their family was a branch of the Liaodong Wang Clan scattered in the Central Plains, and that they were relatives of the ruling class of the Yan Kingdom.

Looking at the majestic Hulao Pass, Yan Ming felt a little troubled, Hulao Pass was much stronger than Jingxing Pass, even if it was bombarded with [King Cannon], it would take a long time to bombard.

The most important thing is that Yan Ming doesn't want to waste the shells of [King Cannon]. It doesn't matter if all the soldiers of the allies are dead, but Yan's shells are wasted if they are worn out.

The last time it was also for the purpose of intimidating the heroes, I only showed it off, and it already caused Yan Ming, who was born in business, a lot of pain.

Although he is an aristocrat, and now he is Lord Yan, before he became Lord Yan, he was a businessman with noble status and had a good relationship with many guilds. No matter what he did, he considered cost and profit.

Using businessman's thinking to govern the country and handle international relations can reduce costs, so we must reduce costs.

Therefore, Yan Ming's plan was to bombard Hulao Pass a few times after Hulao Pass to scare the Tang army at Hulao Pass, and then let the soldiers of the allies attack the city directly.

It is much more cost-effective to consume the lives of allied soldiers than to consume our own shells!
After all, when a person dies, he can regenerate, and when the shells are gone, they are wasted!
The plan was well thought out, Yanming set up camp [-] miles away from Hulao Pass, after all the allied soldiers came all the way and were a little tired, so they needed to rest for a few days before they could launch an attack, capture Hulao Pass, and rescue (Jie ) Aid (plunder) Luoyang City.

The place where Yan Ming set up camp happened to be the place where the anti-Dong allied forces camped.

Faced with the natural danger of Hulao Pass, a counselor in the allied army suggested to Yan Ming: "You can divide your troops into three groups. One way is to stand outside Hulao Pass to attract the attention of the Tang army, and the other way is to go around to the north bank of the Yellow River, pretending to cross the Yellow River. Directly enter the Luoyang Basin, and finally cross the river from Puban all the way, go straight to Guanzhong, and capture Li Yuan alive."

For this suggestion, Yan Ming directly rejected it.

Just kidding?Just these 30 mobs?Also divide the troops?Now when they are gathered together, they can barely command. If they are scattered and split into three groups, they will probably have scattered to the surrounding villages to burn, kill and loot. They don't care about the leader's plan to divide into three groups.

Many tactics can’t be implemented if you want to implement them. Certain conditions are required. Simple tactics such as dividing troops into multiple groups cannot be implemented by mobs. Once implemented, it will not be divided into three groups, but directly When deserters run away.

The soldiers don't care about the commander's tactical plan, let them out of the commander's command area, they will not divide into three groups to implement the tactical plan, but will directly disperse to the surrounding countryside to burn, kill and loot to satisfy their own desires.

All in all, soldiers are not robots, they are not the commander who issues an order, they will execute it seriously, they are human beings, people with emotions and desires, people with their own ideas, they will be deserters, paddle, be lazy, and will not execute The commander-in-chief's battle plan will be violated.

Combat command is really not that simple. It is not enough for a strategist to come up with a plan, or it is not enough for a scholar to wave his hand.

When the 30 Allied Army set up camp outside Hulao Pass, the Tang army began to have differences.

Some generals heard that the Allied Army's 30 troops had arrived, so they wanted to return to Guanzhong and rely on Tongguan's natural danger to resist the Allied Army.

Even Li Yuan, who was in Chang'an, ordered Li Shimin to return to defend Guanzhong and stop attacking Luoyang, because Guanzhong was empty and would be attacked at any time.

However, Li Shimin refused!

"Although there are 30 enemies, good and evil are mixed. Their soldiers come from all over the world and are drawn from various forces. They are not united with each other, and they are even wary of each other."

"With such a mob, do we really believe that they can carry out sneak attack tactics?"

"We have worked so hard to besiege Luoyang for several months, and we are finally about to take it down. If we return to Guanzhong, won't all our efforts in the past few months be in vain?"

What Li Shimin said is very reasonable, but as the saying goes, the public says that the public is right and the woman says that the woman is reasonable, and some people refuted it with examples: "At the beginning, Yang Guang also thought like you, King Qin. He has been fighting in Shanhaiguan for several months. If he suddenly doesn't Fight, isn't the previous painstaking efforts in vain? He also doesn't want to waste his efforts, but what about the final result? Millions of troops are annihilated in ashes!"

This example is too close and too convincing.

Faced with such rebuttals, Li Shimin...

(End of this chapter)