Chapter 303 Thousands of troops evade the King of Qin
As the vision in front of him changed rapidly, Li Hongyun was also reviewing the entire Weishui Alliance in his mind while thinking about the key to clearing this level.
Judging from the previous possession of Liang Taizong, this is indeed a very powerful body, and it seems to have more naturally generated muscle memory than the previous strong men.
Li Hongyun guessed that this may be related to his actual situation.
When Li Hongyun used General Qin Kaiyun's body before, although Li Hongyun could feel the powerful power contained in his body, it was not as obvious as Liang Taizong's body.
This may be because General Qin Kaiyun is better at riding and marksmanship, while Liang Taizong is better at riding and archery.
Therefore, Li Hongyun was able to bring out Liang Taizong's powerful strength even though he was already good at shooting.
Moreover, the dungeon of General Qin Kaiyun cannot obtain talents that enhance riding skills, but in this dungeon, Li Hongyun still has the talent of "Proficiency in Archery and Horses", which is more conducive to allowing him to fully utilize Liang Taizong's riding and archery skills.
It can be said that this is the time when Li Hongyun's personal combat power is the most explosive.
Therefore, in terms of personal force, Li Hongyun should be able to exert roughly 80% to 90% of King Qin's strength.
As for the Weishui Alliance, this was a very key historical event in the Liang Dynasty.
Its importance is that it helped the Liang Dynasty go through the most difficult period and avoid fighting the Turks under the most unfavorable circumstances. Three years later, when the Turks were in a period of weakness, Liang Taizong made a decisive decision after three years of recuperation.
Attack and destroy the country in one battle.
However, there are still many disputes on the Internet about the details of the Weishui Alliance.
For example, many people believe that the Weishui Alliance was originally the result of Liang Taizong's whitewashing and beautification. At that time, the Liang Dynasty must have "exhausted its treasury" and gave a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, and rich women in exchange for Turkic women.
of retreat.
This kind of thing was not recorded in detail in history books because it was embarrassing.
Li Hongyun naturally sneered at this.
Because this is a very simple logical question.
When the Turks retreated, the Liang Dynasty must have given some gold and silver treasures from the treasury, but these gold and silver treasures were definitely not large.
The Turks later stated that they would give away a large number of horses and sheep. This was not a cover-up by the Liang Dynasty to cover up the scandal. Instead, it was a normal part of the peace negotiation.
Those who believe that the Liang Dynasty "drained all its treasury" and used the whole country to compensate women to conclude a peace treaty, their IQs are basically at the level of Qi Yingzong and Qi Gaozong.
A very simple truth: Only by fighting can we make peace. Anything that cannot be obtained on the battlefield will certainly not be obtained at the negotiation table.
To think that as long as the Liang Dynasty "exhausts its treasury" to pay indemnities and cede territory, the Turks will retreat when they are full, is to underestimate the ambition and intelligence of the Turks.
The emperors of the Qi Dynasty all had this idea. When negotiating peace with foreign tribes, they would do everything they could. As long as the foreign tribes put forward conditions, they would immediately accept them completely and unconditionally, thinking that they would satisfy the other side's appetite, and the other side would definitely accept it.
retreat.
The result was naturally the Jingping Revolution.
Because such weakness and compromise will allow the other party to see through your true self. Since you are even willing to agree to such humiliating conditions, it naturally means that you have no fighting troops in the country and you dare not fight with me at all.
In this case, why should I retreat?
If I directly destroy your country and massacre your city, then how much gold, silver, treasures, women and slaves I want will depend on my mood, right? Why should I negotiate with you?
Many people cannot understand this simple truth, so they think that the Weishui Alliance must be a covenant full of humiliation. It must have given the Turks a lot of benefits in exchange for the Turks retreating.
They don't understand that when you give the Turks enough benefits, the Turks will not retreat.
So, back to the essence of the Weishui Alliance.
Before Liang Taizong signed this covenant, he must have been prepared for war.
He first asked Yuchi Jingde to attack, defeated a partial division of the Turks, and beheaded a Turk general. At the same time, he also made preparations for battle, and may even have made a plan to behead Jieli Khan.
After making sufficient preparations, he came to the Weishui River forcefully, showing unprecedented confidence and making the Turks feel timid.
The Turks had long known how powerful Liang Taizong was.
It is said that when Liang Taizong defeated Liu Heita, he encountered Turks. His reaction was to shoot them back with a big arrow.
Liang Taizong's powerful bows and large arrows were several times larger than ordinary ones, and even the arrows were several times thicker than ordinary arrows.
After the Turks got the arrow shot by Liang Taizong and missed it, they circulated it to each other and "thought it was a god".
Coupled with Liang Taizong's outstanding military exploits in the Central Plains, the Turks had long known his reputation.
It is precisely for this reason that Turks do not dare to confront him and always avoid his sharp edges.
The premise of the empty city strategy is that you must be awesome enough to make the other party think that you are a military genius, so there must be an ambush.
If you are not well-known and still play the empty city trick... then it can only be said that you will die without knowing how.
Just like during the Jingping Incident, did Qi Yingzong dare to play the empty city strategy?
Jin Bing will not suspect fraud at all, he will just attack without hesitation and make a joke like the Liujia Shenbing.
Later, Liang Taizong signed a contract with the Turks on the Weishui River. It must be a contract that made the Turks feel that their trip would not be in vain, but they would never dare to push the envelope further.
Such a contract will certainly not be a humiliating contract.
Those who believed that the Weishui Alliance was a very humiliating contract basically used the Qi Dynasty's way of thinking to apply to the Liang Dynasty.
The reason why later generations said that the Weishui Alliance was a shame to Liang Taizong was purely a matter of different perspectives.
When a top student said that he failed in the exam, he definitely didn't mean that he scored 60 points, but that he scored more than 80 points.
In Liang Taizong's view, it was a shame that the Weishui Alliance was driven to Chang'an by the Turks and was forced to form an alliance under the city walls. It failed to fight a major battle in Chang'an that annihilated 100,000 people.
It is completely different from the shame of the Qi Dynasty's alliance under the city.
Therefore, after thinking about this, Li Hongyun roughly determined what he wanted to do.
That is to fight as much as possible, show your powerful fighting power in front of the Turks, and make them afraid!
Only in this way, when the invasion occurred in the ninth year of Wude, he could rely on intimidation to sign the Weishui Alliance with the Turks and overcome this difficulty.
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Five years of martial arts.
Li Hongyun took his troops and horses and set off from Chang'an City to Hedong.
His subordinates kept sending military information to Li Hongyun.
And relying on these military reports, Li Hongyun quickly grasped the situation of Wude in the past five years.
In July of this year, the King of Qin had just dispatched troops from Xu Yuanlang on the battlefield in the Central Plains.
In August, Jieli Khan led a large-scale attack on Yanmen with 150,000 cavalry, and entered Kou Bingzhou, which was Taiyuan City during the Qi Dynasty.
Nomads usually go south in autumn, when the air is crisp and clear, and the autumn harvest has just begun in the south. Invading south at this time can not only disrupt the autumn harvest plan of the south, but also directly obtain food from the south.
The Northern Expedition of the Central Plains Dynasty usually took place in spring.
Because the lifeblood of nomadic people lies in livestock such as horses, cattle, and sheep, whether they are humans or livestock, they often get pregnant in winter and give birth in the next summer and autumn. This is to avoid giving birth in winter and making it difficult to feed them in the next year.
In spring, cattle and sheep have just gone through the cold winter and have exhausted their fat. However, the aquatic plants in spring are not abundant. The livestock must be carefully moved to a few areas with abundant aquatic plants and cannot be kept in large areas.
Therefore, the Central Plains Dynasty chose spring for its northern expedition, which not only made it easier to capture the large numbers of nomadic troops, cattle and sheep that had gathered, but also forced these nomads to produce a large number of abortions during their escape and migration, severely damaging the war potential of the grasslands.
At this time, autumn was about to enter, and the Turks naturally began to go south to thresh the valleys again.
During the Liang Dynasty, Taiyuan was even more important than during the Qi Dynasty.
Because Taiyuan is the gateway to the entire land east of Hedong.
During the Qi Dynasty, the capital was in Daliang. During the Jingping Incident, although the fall of Taiyuan would isolate the northwest army from the capital, the Jin people still had to drive straight in from the east and cross the Yellow River to reach the capital city.
The capital of the Liang Dynasty is in Chang'an. Once Taiyuan is captured, the entire Hedong will fall, and Chang'an will be directly threatened.
Therefore, Hedong is also one of the main battlefields between the Turks and the Liang Dynasty.
At this time, Jieli Khan led his army into Yanmen and attacked Taiyuan. For hundreds of miles around, a large number of Turkic cavalry burned, killed, looted and filled the valley.
When Jieli Khan concentrated on plundering the northeastern part of the river, he also sent thousands of cavalry deep into the hinterland of the east of the river.
At this time, the King of Qin played by Li Hongyun was about to attack.
"An army of 150,000 doesn't sound easy to handle.
"But...there shouldn't be any fighting in history, right? I don't remember that the Weishui Alliance had any record of large-scale fights with the Turks before.
"Where is this place?"
Li Hongyun asked the people around him and got an answer quickly.
This is Puzhou Road northeast of Chang'an.
Pujin Ferry, which attacks Chang'an from Hedong, is nearby. Going north from Puzhou Road, you can follow the flat valley between Taihang Mountain and Luliang Mountain all the way to Jinzhong and Taiyuan.
However, at this moment, a horse came to report: "Report! Your Highness, King Qin, a Turkish cavalry of several hundred people was found thirty miles ahead. It seems that they have just arrived and are about to start looting!"
Li Hongyun couldn't help but his eyes lit up: "Oh? They really dare to go deep into the east of Hedong? Okay, here are five hundred cavalry, follow me and charge!"
Li Hongyun rode Juechen and rushed in the direction of the Turkic cavalry.
During the bumps on the horse's back, he touched the big bow on his back and the big arrows in his quiver.
According to historical records, the King of Qin's big bow was two meters long, and its arrows were "twice as good as normal". "The arrow pierced seven thorns, and the bow penetrated six junctures," and it could "shoot a hole and close the door."
When he was fighting Liu Heita, the lost arrow was captured by the Turks, and the Turks' reaction was: "Look at it and think it's a god."
When Li Hongyun played Dou Jiande's confrontation with the King of Qin, this big bow also gave him an extremely terrifying sense of oppression.
Of course, the record that the big bow is two meters long is a bit exaggerated, but compared to ordinary bows and arrows, it is indeed terrifyingly large.
But now, this big bow is in my hands.
Not long after, a few probing Turkic rangers appeared at the end of the field of vision.
These Turks were obviously the rangers who scattered around to plunder Taiyuan after they invaded Taiyuan. Their number may not be too many, but the scattering of such a large number of cavalry gave the Liang Dynasty a headache.
If ordinary generals encounter this kind of situation, they often dare not pursue them deeply, because the Turkic cavalry is very mobile. Once they send out a large army to pursue them, they are very likely to be led into an ambush by these cavalry.
But Li Hongyun is certainly not afraid of this.
I, the King of Qin, am afraid of whom?
He stepped forward on horseback and saw that these Turkic cavalry had not yet realized the seriousness of the problem. They fired their bows and arrows and aimed an arrow at one of the cavalry!
"Whoosh!"
The arrow missed the air and flew past with a roar. The thick arrow instantly pierced the Turkic man and shot him off his horse.
Li Hongyun didn't stop at all, the horse under his crotch was still galloping forward. At the same time, his second arrow was shot instantly.
"Whoosh!"
A Turkic cavalryman was shot off his horse.
Although it is said that "shoot the man first, shoot the horse", this kind of thing obviously does not hold true in King Qin's case.
He always shoots people directly.
The reason why people should be shot first before horses is, on the one hand, because human targets are relatively small and can dodge, making it difficult to hit. On the other hand, because people are often wearing armor, the lethality of missed arrows is limited.
However, King Qin's archery skills were top-notch and he would never miss a hit. Moreover, his large bow and heavy arrows had an excellent armor-piercing effect. Even armor-clad generals could be shot through with one arrow, not to mention the vast majority of them.
There are no armored Turkic rangers.
Moreover, captured people are of no use, but captured war horses can be directly equipped to Liang Jun!
The other Turkic cavalry couldn't help but be shocked. Before they could react, a young man rushed over from the opposite side and shot the two people here to death. Is this okay?
These Turks immediately took out their bows and arrows and prepared to fight back, but only a few arrows were shot.
More Turkic cavalry just drew their bows without firing, and only a few fired because of panic or lack of experience.
Sure enough, these arrows fell to the ground exhausted before they even reached Li Hongyun.
The long bow and arrows in Li Hongyun's hands had absolute range suppression.
He kept unfurling his bow and nocking arrows, and shot out the big arrows in succession, as if he were playing a shooting game, and all the targets he aimed at fell down!
Behind him, Liang Jun's cavalry swept past like a whirlwind. The morale of these Turkic cavalry collapsed in an instant, fled in all directions, and were directly scattered by Liang Jun.
Then there was a one-sided massacre.
It's just that these Turkic cavalry are fast after all, and while they were fleeing in all directions, a large number of them still fled northward in a hurry.
Although Li Hongyun could continue the pursuit, he felt that it was pointless to continue the pursuit. After all, it was not a decisive battle, so he ordered the cavalry to return to their own formation and continue marching to Taiyuan.
However, when he first arrived in Linfen, Li Hongyun received a military report that disappointed him.
The Turks have withdrawn!
After learning that the King of Qin had arrived in Puzhou, Jieli Khan did not delay at all, and directly led his troops out of the fortress with more than 5,000 men and women whom he had kidnapped, and returned to Mobei.
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After completing his five-year mission in Wude, Li Hongyun continued to challenge other years.
However, what made him a little disappointed was that although there were many battles with the Turkic Rangers during this period, no too fierce bloody battles broke out.
In the sixth year of Wude, the Turks invaded Mayi and Shuozhou again. The King of Qin, played by Li Hongyun, came to Bingzhou to take precautions. It was not until November that the imperial court negotiated peace with the Turks and returned to the court.
In the eighth year of Wude, Jieli Khan invaded Lingzhou again. Liang Gaozu sent veteran Zhang Jin to meet the enemy. As a result, Jieli Khan made a false shot and suddenly appeared in the direction of Shuozhou. Liang Gaozu had no choice but to ask the King of Qin to send troops to Puzhou again to defend against it.
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As a result, when Zhang Jin turned around to meet the enemy, he was defeated by the Turks in Taigu and his entire army was annihilated. He escaped alone and went to Li Jing. Later, Li Jing and Li Shiji sent troops to stop him, so Jieli Khan was unable to go deeper and confronted Liang Jun in Bingzhou.
The King of Qin went north from Puzhou to attack, but as soon as he left Puzhou, Jieli Khan led his troops away again.
At this point, Li Hongyun has completed all three of the five simpler years.
The remaining seven years of Wude and the ninth year of Wude are two more difficult years.
Li Hongyun couldn't help but sigh: "So that's it.
"I have always wondered why the Turks invaded Chang'an as soon as King Qin came to the throne after the Xuanwu Gate Incident?
"Now I know that the Turks have been trying every year, but King Qin has been able to defeat them every time.
"If it weren't for the King of Qin, there would be no need to wait for the ninth year of Wude. Maybe the Turks would have already reached Chang'an in the fifth year of Wude..."
The war situation at this time has already seen the spectacle of "thousands of troops fleeing the King of Qin".
When other generals led troops to fight, the Turks didn't care at all, and there were all kinds of battles. Even when Li Jing led troops to fight, the Turks dared to stay and maintain a stalemate.
But as soon as King Qin took action, the Turks had already withdrawn as soon as they reached Puzhou.
This is enough to show how powerful the King of Qin, as the most capable person in the entire Liang Dynasty, was in the minds of the Turks.
Li Hongyun turned his attention to options for Wude seven years.
Judging from the game settings, this year's mission seems to be more difficult.
However, after several previous battles, Li Hongyun was already full of confidence.
