First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 233
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Hearing Li Shiji's words, Li Shimin would naturally not blame him for praising Dou Jiande for his benevolence and righteousness. After all, Dou Jiande's name is indeed resounding. , with a deep sense of loyalty.

Li Shimin immediately wrote a letter to Dou Jiande with his own handwriting. The general meaning is as follows: King Huai'an and Princess Tong'an received your courtesy and sent them back to Chang'an sincerely. To invade the territory of the Tang Dynasty?

Wang Shichong has fought with you many times, and now you are about to be defeated. You should attack Wang Shichong together with Tang Dynasty, instead of attacking your allies. I met your rangers today, and I am really vulnerable. Your vigor is not intentional to start a war, but I really want to tell you, I hope you can find your way back, don't go your own way, don't say it is unpredictable.

When this letter was sent to the summer camp, there was no doubt that Dou Jiande was not a mediocre person, so he naturally knew the truth of his lips and teeth, and sent troops to attack Hulao Pass the next day, but returned without success.

Seeing that Li Shimin hoped that Luoyang would run out of food, he would destroy Wang Shichong first. Gao Chong knew that Luoyang was the eastern capital after all, and that Wang Shichong would search for the people, so the food would not be completely cut off in a short time. Today's Dou Jiande is Wang Shichong's life-saving straw. Once Dou Jiande is defeated, Wang Shichong will surrender in despair.

After figuring out this link, Gao Chong immediately said: "Wang Shichong is defending the fortified city, and it is not easy to conquer. Maybe we can find an opportunity to defeat Dou Jiande in the wild first, and then make an emergency landing on Wang Shichong."

"Crash landing..." Faced with this new vocabulary, Li Shimin murmured repeatedly, then slowly nodded and said: "What Youzhi said is not unreasonable. Although Dou Jiande has a large number of people, it is not impossible to find opportunities If we were defeated, it was Wang Shichong who defended the city, leaving us at a loss what to do. We can indeed adjust our thinking, first destroy Dou Jiande, and then seek Wang Shichong."

This suggestion was also approved by Li Shiji and others. In the next few days, Dou Jiande attacked Hulao Pass several times to no avail, and stopped before the pass. Li Shimin was also looking for opportunities.

At this moment, Gao Chong thought of a person, that was Jun Kuo, Duke of Shanggu County.

Although Wang Junkuo was a man of bad conduct, he was also courageous and resourceful. In the last years of his great career, the world was in chaos. Wang Junkuo wanted to raise troops to be robbers, but his uncle disagreed. Wang Junkuo accused his aunt of having an affair with his neighbor and encouraged his uncle to kill the neighbor. They raised troops together, gathered more than a thousand people, and for the disaster of Hedong, they swindled down to Ding Rong, the Prime Minister of Hedong County, and Song Laosheng, the Governor of Linfen County, and then occupied Jingxing together with the bandits Wei Bao and Deng Bao.

After Li Yuan occupied Hedong, he sent people to surrender. Wei and Deng agreed to join him. Wang Junkuo also pretended to agree, but at night, taking advantage of his unpreparedness, he attacked and killed Wei and Deng, collected all his troops, and defected to Wa, the number one prince in the world at that time. Gang Li Mi.

Unexpectedly, Li Mi's army was defeated like a mountain, and Wang Junkuo surrendered to Li Tang before Li Mi surrendered to Li Tang, so he was reused by Li Yuan.

The reason why Gao Chong thought of Wang Junkuo now was because Wang Junkuo was in Guancheng, a hundred miles to the east.

During the previous siege of Luoyang, Li Shimin ordered Wang Junkuo to attack Luokou in order to cut off Luoyang's grain roads. Thousands of enemies attacked all the way to Guancheng.

And Guancheng was to the east of Hulao Pass, and Gao Chong, who was very sensitive to geography, realized that Wang Junkuo might be able to make extraordinary achievements.

Because Dou Jiande stationed troops in Hulao Guandong Plain, food and grass came from Hebei along the Yellow River, and Wang Junkuo's troops were in the southeast of it. Once Wang Junkuo went north and deployed troops by the Yellow River, it might cut off the Xia army's food and grass.

When Gao Chong brought up this idea, Li Shimin was overwhelmed with surprise. He walked quickly to the map, and praised in surprise: "You really know the geographical location very well. Wang Junkuo's troops are a surprise army. Behind the Xia army The Raiders".

Li Shimin also knew that Wang Junkuo had many tricks, so he didn't go into details, and only let Wang Junkuo look for opportunities to rob food.

Guancheng, after Wang Junkuo entered the city, the army was out alone, so he was a bit slack. He actually ordered his subordinates to search for several beauties and have fun day and night.

It is also God's help Wang Junkuo, and it happens that a batch of Xia's army food and grass will soon come from the waterway.

Wang Junkuo didn't have a warship and couldn't plunder on the water, so he didn't dare to lead the army, so he had to lead a thousand light cavalry to rush out when the Xia army's grain transport team was approaching the shore.

The sudden appearance of Tang Jun Qingqi killed Xia Jun by surprise and fled in a panic. However, the ship had landed and it was difficult to set sail in a short time. Xia Jun disembarked and had to fight on foot. Defeated, Wang Junkuo captured Xia general Zhang Qingte, and captured dozens of ships with grain and grass.

When Gao Chong first recommended Wang Junkuo to attack Dou Jiande's food transport team, other people, such as Qiu Xinggong, were still a little unconvinced.

After all, Qiu Xinggong and others come from famous families, and they are serious generals in the army. Regardless of the various military tactics, Ma Qian's family's martial arts is better than Wang Junkuo's.

Although Wang Junkuo attached himself to Li Mi with the land of Jingxing, he later attached himself to Li Yuan. In terms of territory, Wang Junkuo owns Jingxing and dominates the Taihang Mountains. When it comes to soldiers and horses, he often has thousands of soldiers and horses under his command. He only recognizes Wang Junkuo as his master. , but in fact no one regards Wang Junkuo as a separatist prince, only as a bandit.

What's more, Wang Junkuo came from a humble background, and the way he started his family was benefited by others. In the eyes of Qiu Xinggong and others, even though Wang Junkuo was a colleague of the Duke of the Duke, he was still not a stranger.

Seeing Wang Junkuo's extraordinary achievements now, Qiu Xinggong and his gang of "reckless" people immediately exploded.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, there was a lot of hustle and bustle.

"Gao Sima, next time you have such a good thing, remember to order someone to go." Qiu Xinggong complained with envy and hatred, "Such extraordinary achievements are just cheap for that Jingxing thief."

Hearing this, Gao Chong suddenly understood why even though Wang Junkuo had repeatedly made military exploits, became a Duke of the state, and was ranked as a member of the third rank, he still ended up dead in the end.

First of all, Wang Junkuo's background and conduct are destined not to be recognized. All the officials have no sense of recognition for him, and even Gao Chong can feel it vaguely. Hesitant and surprised.

"General Qiu, don't talk like that, after all, you belong to your colleagues." Gao Chong couldn't say much, so he said helplessly.

Seeing this, Li Shimin also pretended to be angry and said: "Be respectful and cautious in speaking, and serve wine to Lord Shanggu later, and apologize for today's words."

Qiu Jing's character is respectful, Li Shimin called him by his character, and he called Wang Junkuo's title, which can be seen.

　Convinced and convinced, I was stuck on the highway for more than 30 hours. I wrote this in the car. I will make some slight changes tomorrow. Brothers, I am really sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)