Hua Ling's army arrived on the 15th day after Liu Ling wiped out the Zhou army's Jizi camp cavalry. Yang Ye led the army to conquer several states in the south, led an army of 30,000 to kill and capture the Zhou army, and hundreds of thousands of green forest soldiers. After returning to Tangzhou,
Hua Ling and Yang Ye left tens of thousands of people to defend the city and mobilized 50,000 elite soldiers. However, their journey was delayed due to heavy rain and muddy roads. After arriving in Laihe County, Hua Ling and Yang Ye apologized in front of Liu Ling.
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Liu Ling looked at the two young generals who prostrated themselves in front of him, the two leaders of the younger generation in the Han army, and smiled: "It's raining heavily and the roads are muddy. It's beyond human strength. What's wrong with you two?"
He stretched out his hand to pull Hua Ling and Yang Ye up and said with a smile: "The six states south of Tangzhou were pacified by the two of you in just three months. I will keep this great achievement in mind."
Liu Ling ordered someone to get the wine and said, "Come on, I'll offer you two a bowl of wine first!"
Hua Ling and Yang Ye quickly knelt down on one knee, took the wine bowls and said in unison: "Bless your Majesty!"
Liu Ling smiled and said: "Longevity for all the people in the world!"
The three of them drank the wine at the same time.
Liu Ling ordered the army to rest for three days and marched to Huaizhou three days later. Hualing's army came all the way from Tangzhou. The soldiers were tired and the grain and grass sent from Luoyang were still halfway there. Furthermore, the situation north of the Yellow River was still unclear.
Liu Ling is in no hurry to send troops. Battle reports from the Supervisory Council are sent to the camp every day. Pei Zhan is currently leading 150,000 Ding'an troops and is fighting fiercely with the Chengde army led by Zhu Sanqi. Both sides are victorious. Liu Ling knows
, if he rashly led his troops to join the battle group, there is no way that Pei Zhan and Zhu Sanqi would target the Han army at the same time.
One hundred thousand Han troops gathered in the small county of Laihe. Although they stood still, Wu Zilai from Zhengzhou and Li Tianfang in Kaifeng all tensed up their nerves. The recent patrols of sentries and cavalry arrested more than a hundred spies from Zhengzhou alone. This shows that Wu Zilai and
How nervous are Li Tianfang and Li Tianfang? It stands to reason that the combined military strength of Zhengzhou and Kaifeng is 100,000, and both places are large cities. If the people are anxious to defend the city, there will undoubtedly be hundreds of thousands more. Liu Ling
With only 100,000 troops, Wu Zilai and Li Tianfang shouldn't be too nervous. It's just that Liu Ling's reputation is too great. Both Wu Zilai and Li Tianfang have unconcealable scruples about Liu Ling.
Hua Ling and Yang Ye reported in detail the process of conquering the six southern states. In fact, it was easier to pacify these six states than imagined. In these six states, the city guards were all county soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was far inferior to the regular soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Moreover, after the arrival of the Han army, the soldiers and civilians guarding the city were already in panic. The state capital was better. When the magistrates of the small counties saw the arrival of the Han lion, almost no one dared to resist, and they opened the city to surrender. As for the green forest soldiers,
Their combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the Zhou soldiers, and many of them were defeated in one battle.
After recounting what had happened, Yang Ye said: "The Zhou army has lost morale, and those county soldiers surrendered as soon as our army arrived in the city. It is worth mentioning that the army of the Southern Tang Dynasty was quite powerful.
, is far from being as weak as the rumors say. He was beaten by the Zhou army and was in such a miserable state that he lost his helmet and armor. I don’t know if it was due to the luck of the Zhou army.”
Liu Ling heard this and asked: "Why, did you meet Tang Jun?"
Yang Yedao: "At the end of February, my subordinates captured Anzhou, rested for ten days, and then moved south to attack Huangzhou in early March. Along the way, they encountered the remnants of the Shouzhou bandit Yang Yishan and defeated them. Yang Yishan escaped alone. On March 20, my subordinates
Leading the army to Huangzhou, they saw that 20,000 Tang troops had just arrived and were about to capture Huangzhou. His subordinates sent people to find out that the Tang army belonged to the Xingsheng Army of the Tang Dynasty in the north of the Yangtze River, and the general leading the army was Li Wanzhi, the military governor of the Xingsheng Army.
His general Zhu Zheng. The Tang State was repeatedly bullied by the Zhou Dynasty, and even lost the territory of the Fourteen States. The territory of the Tang State was reduced by 30%. When the Emperor of the Tang State, Li Yu, saw that the Zhou Dynasty was now in disarray, he wanted to take back the land of the Fourteen States, so he sent
Li Wanzhi sent troops to attack Huangzhou. His subordinates sent people to warn Zhu Zheng to order him to retreat, but Zhu Zheng refused. The next day, his subordinates sent troops to attack his camp. The Tang soldiers fought hard for three days before being defeated. Although they were defeated, Tang soldiers
The soldiers retreated in a measured and measured manner without any panic, which shows the morale of their army."
Liu Ling frowned and said: "Li Yu? Is he the Emperor Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty who said, "If you keep cutting, the reasoning is still messy, it's the sorrow of divorce, not the ordinary feeling in your heart"? "
Yang Ye said: "Exactly, it turns out that the prince has known about this person for a long time."
Liu Ling sighed in his heart, another premature baby. According to history, Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, should still be Duke Ding'an at this time. In order not to be suspected by his vicious brother, he named himself Zhong Feng Yin.
In order to avoid disaster, he devoted himself to landscape poetry and painting all day long and did not dare to interfere with political affairs. But now there are several Li Yus, which shows that his short-lived brother is even more short-lived than in history. Liu Ling sighed secretly, not knowing that it was his own
Has his arrival changed the course of history, or is he living in a world that is simply not the one he is familiar with? In any case, he is a little butterfly flying from the future, and his flapping wings have already caused a tornado in some places.
The royal family of the Southern Tang Dynasty is also sad. Li Yu is the sixth son of Li Jing, the central lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty. He has five older brothers. Theoretically, there is no way he can succeed to the throne. But Li Yu is lucky.
, his second brother, third brother, and fourth brother all died young. In fact, he was regarded as the second son. And his eldest brother, Prince Li Hongji, was jealous, harsh and ruthless. In order to inherit the throne, he killed his uncle Li Jingsui.
Because the king Li Jing said something, the throne will end with his younger brother. This means that after his death, the throne will be passed to his younger brother Li Jingsui. As the prince, Li Hongji is destined not to inherit the throne. How frustrating is this? More
What's more, if his uncle ascends the throne, it's unclear whether he will be worthy of being crown prince. Therefore, Li Hongji killed Li Jingsui. In this way, Li Hongji's future will be bright. His confused father can only
The throne can be passed on to him, but it cannot be passed on to a dead person.
It is a pity that Li Hongji died of a sudden illness not long after killing his uncle. Therefore, the lucky Li Yu successfully ascended the throne. After Li Hongji's death, the emperor Li Jing planned to make Li Yu the crown prince. Minister Zhong Mo said:
"Being a coward based on Jiade, underestimating ambition, and being extremely loyal to the Shi family, he is not a master of talent. He is good, courageous, and dignified, so he should be his heir." Li Jing was angry and found an excuse to demote Zhong Mo to the position of Siye, the prince of the country, and exiled him to Raozhou.
, granted Li Yu the title of King of Wu, Shangshu Ling, informed of political affairs, and ordered him to live in the East Palace. In fact, Zhong Mo didn't open his eyes. The emperor's first five sons were all dead, and it was the turn of the sixth son to discuss. You still said that he was not good.
, I have to say that Lao Qi Li is a good person, isn’t this asking for trouble? As the saying goes, sit in rows and divide the fruits. If you encourage the prince not to queue, the emperor will naturally suppress you.
Liu Ling knew Li Yu's fate. He died from the poison given by Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi at the age of forty-two. But now Liu Ling dare not be so sure, because the two brothers Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi
The person has not appeared yet. So, has Li Yu's fate changed?
Li Yu is not good at being an emperor, but he is still very good at writing poems. There are countless famous sentences that have been passed down to later generations, especially the sentence asking how much sorrow you can have, just like a river of spring water flowing eastward, which has been sung through the ages. He is good at writing lyrics.
, he was poisoned to death because he offended Zhao Guangyi because of his lyrics. It can be said that he is a very sad character...
What this period of history tells us is that if you are not familiar with business, you must not take over everything. Li Yu is a literary young man, and it is obviously not possible to be an emperor.
Thinking of Li Yu, Liu Ling looked forward to the inevitable southern expedition in the future.
After asking in detail about the Tang Army's equipment, personnel quality, and combat effectiveness, Liu Ling got to know the Tang Army for the first time. Yang Ye admired Zhu Zheng quite a lot, which shows that the Tang Army's combat effectiveness was far from being as weak as the legend said. In fact, Yang Ye admired Zhu Zheng very much.
It is not difficult to guess the key after analyzing it. When the Zhou Dynasty conquered the south, it was the time when the Zhou army was the most powerful. The millions of troops were all good at fighting. Chai Rong's position was stable and his prestige was unparalleled. The Zhou army
Unity is like an iron plate and a horizontal sword. At that time, the Tang army was far from the opponent of the Zhou army. But now, the Zhou Dynasty is in chaos, and generals everywhere protect their own strength. No one is willing to waste their own strength and fight bloody battles. But Yue
In this way, the war in the Great Zhou Dynasty became more and more chaotic. A large number of good combat veterans died in the civil war, and one disappeared and the other increased, so it seemed that the combat effectiveness of the Tang army was quite outstanding.
After Liu Ling listened to Yang Ye's detailed account of the battle, he began to think about whether it was time to let the Overwatch Council's tentacles extend further. Currently, most of the intelligence collected by the Overwatch Council's spies is in Liaoning.
The three countries of Xia and Zhou paid little attention to the southern countries. Otherwise, Liu Ling would not have known that Li Yu had ascended the throne in advance.
However, Liu Ling knew very well that the focus now must be on the three northern countries and the southern expedition. The time is far from coming.
On the second day when the army rested, the grain and grass supplies from Luoyang also arrived in Laihe County. This time, the person escorting the supplies was Zhao Er, who was transferred by Liu Ling. Since the local situation was stable, it was more appropriate for Zhao Er to come to the front line to rest and recuperate.
Three days later, with sufficient supplies of food and grass and high morale, the Han army began to move northward after Liu Ling gave the order.
Laihe County is only three hundred miles away from Huaizhou. Even if the army moves slowly, it will definitely be able to reach it within ten days. Now it is Pei Zhan's Ding'an Army who controls Huaizhou. According to the information sent by the Supervisory Council's spies,
According to the intelligence, there are only 5,000 defenders in Huaizhou, and it is easy to obtain them. If Huaizhou is lost, I am afraid that Pei Zhan will immediately turn his attention. But now that Pei Zhan has led his army to Jizhou, the base camp of the German army, think about it again
I'm afraid I won't be able to return to school.
Compared with losing Huaizhou, if Jizhou is captured, Pei Zhan will gain far more than he loses. Once Jizhou is captured, the Chengde Army will declare a complete failure. After pacifying the north and returning to the south, Pei Zhan will not feel that Liu Ling
is invincible.
Pei Zhan has been deliberately avoiding premature contact with the Han army, but he also knows that a battle with the Han army is inevitable. (To be continued)
