Chapter one thousand seven hundred and seven war against Tang
Over the past year, the Da'an Imperial Court and the planned six legions have been preparing intensively for war. As the time for the war against the Tang Dynasty approaches, the Da'an Imperial Court, the civil and military officials inside and outside the army are all excited.
There is no way, Tang is the last territory to unify the world, and the meaning of conquering Tang is completely different from conquering Goguryeo.
Not only because the Tang State itself was a part of the Chinese dynasties, but also because the Tang State occupied Guanzhong, the land of Longxing, and also occupied the two capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang, which had the most capitals in all dynasties so far.
You must know that Nanjing, Beijing, Kaifeng and other ancient capitals were established as Kyoto by subsequent dynasties after the Tang Dynasty.
Before this, King Wen of Zhou Dynasty in the Western Zhou Dynasty had built Fengjing where Chang'an City was located and moved his subjects from Qishan to Zhouyuan here.
After King Wu destroyed the Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty, Fengjing (Chang'an) was still the capital.
In Xianyang, the capital of Qin, most of the Epang Palace is actually within Chang'an.
Liu Bang established the Western Han Dynasty in Chang'an and established the capital in Guanzhong. He took the meaning of the local Chang'an township and named it "Chang'an", which means "long-lasting peace and stability".
In the first year of the founding of the new dynasty, Wang Mang proclaimed himself emperor and changed the name of the capital Chang'an to "Chang'an".
In the second year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign in the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty issued an order to build the new capital Daxing City at the site of today's Chang'an City, southeast of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty.
Looking at Luoyang again, in the early years of the Xia Dynasty, Yu conquered the nine states, and Heluo belonged to the ancient Yuzhou region. Luoyang was the center of the founding and activities of the Xia Dynasty.
The Shang Dynasty was established. Shang Tang established its capital in Xibo, which was actually the land of Luoyang.
After the Yin Dynasty in the Western Zhou Dynasty, in order to control the eastern region, they began to build the capital in Luoyang.
In the first year of King Ping of Zhou, King Ping of Zhou moved eastward to Luoyi, which became the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
In the fifth year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty. The capital was initially in Luoyang and later moved to Chang'an.
In the first year of Han Guangwu and Jianwu, Liu Xiu made Luoyang his capital and changed Luoyang to Luoyang.
In the first year of Huangchu, Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi made Luoyang his capital and changed Luoyang to Luoyang.
In the first year of Taishi, the Western Jin Dynasty replaced the Wei Dynasty, and Luoyang was still the capital.
In the second year of Taiyan, the Northern Wei Dynasty established Luozhou in Luoyang.
In the 18th year of Taihe, Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang.
In the first year of Daye, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang and built a new city called Luoyang eighteen miles east of the Imperial City of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and eighteen miles west of the old city of the Han and Wei dynasties.
In short, the status of Chang'an City and Luoyang City in the hearts of today's people is really special. If the whole of China is regarded as a dragon, Chang'an City and Luoyang City are the heart.
It was even clear to everyone in the Da'an Kingdom that Yangzhou could not become the capital of the Da'an Kingdom. This was only a temporary expedient. After the Tang Kingdom was captured, the Da'an Kingdom would inevitably move its capital to Chang'an or Luoyang.
In fact, Wang Junlin also thought so. If he stayed in Yangzhou for a long time, it would be too easy for the court to fall into a luxurious and decadent life, the army to become corrupt, and the ambitions to be wasted.
For all military generals, whoever can capture Luoyang City or Chang'an City will have a great achievement that will be passed down through the ages. It can even surpass other military generals for a time and become the first military general of Da'an Kingdom and the most important contributor to the founding of the country.
Nowadays, among the civil and military officials of the Da'an Kingdom, there are many fierce generals, there are also many capable ministers among the virtuous ministers, and there are even more ambitious ones.
It has only been more than two years since the founding of Da'an, and the powerful have already been divided into three, six, and nine levels. After the world is unified, these three, six, and nine levels will be difficult to break for many years to come.
Therefore, for the civil and military officials of Da'an, especially for ordinary soldiers, attacking Tang was their last opportunity to significantly improve their titles and official positions, or obtain titles and official positions.
In addition, several dark horses have emerged in the imperial court recently, and they will be able to obtain high-level titles on the next National Day ceremony. Their deeds have inspired a large number of young officials and ordinary soldiers.
For example, he single-handedly sneaked into Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, and poisoned the Goguryeo prince, prime minister and general, as well as more than a hundred high-ranking generals of the garrison, allowing the violent bear army to easily break through Pyongyang, directly causing the security government in Goguryeo to have a smooth situation.
The deputy director of the Department of Medical Devices and Medicine is Mu Pipi.
Therefore, everyone is gearing up and waiting for this day to happen, waiting for Wang Junlin to issue the final order to send troops.
Especially those who believe in their extraordinary abilities and have a few brushes, they plan secretly early and take the initiative to grab tasks and offer advice and suggestions to their superiors.
In short, there is a strong atmosphere of war-seeking in Da'an Kingdom, and everyone is full of fighting spirit.
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On September 11th, the third year of Tianxiang, under the expectation of all civil and military officials and soldiers in the army, His Majesty the Emperor of Da'an State, Wang Junlin, appointed Li Jing, the general manager of the military government, as the commander-in-chief, and divided the army into three groups: east, west and south.
Send troops to the Tang Dynasty.
The East Route Army was led by Qin Qiong, and there were two legions in Taiyuan, totaling 100,000 people. The two armies set out from their respective stations and assembled in front of Tongguan, the central gate of Guanzhong on September 14th to launch an attack on Tongguan.
The West Route Army was divided into two groups, the Wagang Army under the command of Xu Shiji and the 100,000-strong Western Army under Shangguan Hu. On September 15, Shangguan Hu led 50,000 elite troops from Longguan to attack Heifeng Pass, the west gate of the Tang Dynasty.
At the same time, Xu Shiji led the Wagang Army with 50,000 troops from Hanzhong, crossed the Qinling Mountain Road, and launched an attack in the Chencang area.
The South Route Army, led by Li Jing, led Yuchi Jingde's Tiger Army and Lu Han's Iron Spear Army, with 100,000 men, approaching Luoyang from the Central Plains.
To be honest, this time, Wang Junlin did not mobilize many men and horses, only 300,000 people. However, there were 200,000 other legions in the field, which were already at the first level of combat readiness. As a reserve force, they could go into war at any time and provide support everywhere.
However, due to the special terrain of Guanzhong, the east and west sides are blocked by Tongguan City and Heifengguan City respectively. If you want to enter Guanzhong, you must break through these two gateway-like gates.
The terrain of these passes is dangerous, and the Tang State has invested a lot of manpower, material resources, financial resources and troops in recent years to build these two passes into iron passes. The city walls are nearly ten feet high, regardless of the height of the city walls.
Neither the thickness nor the thickness of the city gate can be easily exploded by explosives.
Moreover, each city is stationed with a hundred thousand troops, and they are all garrisoned by generals who are experienced in defending the city and can stand alone.
But similarly, because the Tang State had high hopes for these two great passes, if the Da'an army could break through them, it would have a huge impact on the entire Tang State, especially the morale of the army, which would definitely be greatly affected.
Compared with Qin Qiong on the east route and Xu Shiji on the west route who encountered Xiongguan at the beginning, it was different when Li Jing on the south route attacked Luoyang.
Under Li Jing's personal command, relying on a variety of sharp siege weapons, and the clear and complete intelligence support of the previous Security Bureau and Military Intelligence Bureau, within thirteen days, Li Jing, Yuchi Jingde, and Lu Han led the army to defeat the Tang Dynasty south of Luoyang.
Seven military villages and three county towns were built in the past two or three years on the front line. The army directly attacked Luoyang City, surrounded the east, west and south sides of Luoyang City and began to attack Luoyang City.
What I have to say is that compared with the Liang State that attacked the south two years ago, nearly half of the cities surrendered directly or were attacked by people from the Security Bureau and the Military Intelligence Bureau.
Among the three counties, only one opened its doors and surrendered directly after the troops came to the city.
It can be seen from this that Da'an's unfavorable struggle in the ideological field has greatly reduced the effect achieved by the Tang State.
This is related to the fact that Li Shimin realized this many years ago and took a lot of countermeasures.
For example, after Li Shimin rebelled and came to power, he first ordered the massacre of the Xiaoyu Theater and the Wulin Guild in the territory without waiting for the establishment of a country and proclaimed himself emperor, and even banned the glass trading houses and other products exported by Da'an.
Moreover, from the very beginning of the war, Li Shimin, who led the Tang Dynasty, had a clear view of the combat power of his army, and formulated a grand strategy focusing on defense, relying on cities and military strongholds to consume Da'an's troops and prolong the war.
, thereby increasing the burden of grain and grass supply in Da'an.
Then, they are waiting for Xiao Yu, who has high hopes from Li Shimin and Puppet No. 1, to stir up troubles with the Nanzhao tribe in the south of Da'an Kingdom at the critical moment and look for opportunities to defeat Da'an Kingdom.
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In addition to the south army led by Li Jing, Xu Shiji, the west army, did not attack Heifeng Pass honestly. Instead, he asked Shangguan Hu to stare at Heifeng Pass. At the same time, Xu Shiji divided the 50,000 elite soldiers of his Wagang Army into five groups.
, took the mountain road and swept all the way behind Heifeng Pass, occupying all the villages and towns, and also captured two military strongholds, which was regarded as cutting off the back road from Heifeng Pass to Chencang.
Xu Shiji's tactics are actually similar to when Wang Junlin led the Far Eastern Army to attack Hedong and Guanzhong in three groups five years ago. At that time, Shangguan Hu and others could not attack Longguan, which Hou Junji was defending for a long time, so Zhang Tiangang led the three groups.
The masters of the Thousand Special Forces team crossed mountains and ridges to cut off Longguan's retreat at the current location of Heifengguan City. They defended Longguan for more than three months, causing Longguan to run out of food and grass, and finally Longguan was breached.
However, with the experience and lessons learned from Long Pass being breached five years ago, how could the Tang State be unprepared? In recent years, a large amount of grain and grass had been stored in Heifeng Pass, which could completely feed the 100,000 horses and horses in Heifeng Pass for a year.
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Xu Shiji had already learned this through spies from the Military Intelligence Agency, but he still used the same tactics, but with different considerations.
Shangguan Hu received Xu Shiji's order not to capture Heifeng Pass, but to keep Heifeng Pass under surveillance. As long as the people in Heifeng Pass dared to come out to fight in the field, they must be beaten back.
After Xu Shiji led the Wagang Army to cut off the retreat from Heifeng Pass, he did not join forces with Shangguan Hu to attack Heifeng Pass. Instead, he left 10,000 troops to continue to garrison between Heifeng Pass and Chencang.
The military strongholds, villages and towns continued to block the road from Chencang to Heifeng Pass, and he led the main force of the 40,000 Wagang Army directly to the east to attack Chencang County.
As long as Chencang County is captured, Xu Shiji can directly enter Guanzhong and enter the 800-mile plain of the Qinling Mountains, which is only more than 700 miles away from Chang'an City.