[Datang Shuanglong Biography] The Wolf of the Eastern Capital

With the support of Tang Tianliang, Li Shimin carried Liu Wuzhou's siege no less than ten times, and then Liu Wuzhou's own people turned against the water and joined Li Shimin. After all, Liu Wuzhou's men were still mostly Han people, and the Turks behind him did not stop them from attacking the Central Plains. There is something wrong with following Liu Wuzhou to beat the Han people, but it is just a little incitement, and the effect is great.Li Shimin took back several cities around Taiyuan, and Liu Wuzhou withdrew his own territory. Because of his defection to the Turkic people, half of his soldiers dispersed. If it weren't for the Eastern Turkic people behind him, Li Shimin might have directly taken Liu Wuzhou's hometown gave it away.

When Liu Wu withdrew his troops on Monday, Li Shimin sent troops to occupy several cities in the south of Taiyuan, approaching the Turkic soldiers stationed in Fengqiu.But as soon as he settled down, Li Shimin received a secret letter from Li Yuan, asking him to retreat to Taiyuan and not to face the Eastern Turkic soldiers as an enemy.

"What do you mean by Father?" Li Shimin asked the cronies around him with a gloomy expression.

"...I'm afraid they want to use the Turks to capture Luoyang." Li Jing said.

"Once Luoyang is lost, the Central Plains will be hard to protect. With Luoyang as the backing, it will be extremely easy for the Turks to deal with Chang'an, or go south to Jiangnan," Wei Zheng said.

"The emperor will not fail to understand such a simple and clear matter." Pei Ji, another counselor of Li Shimin, said.

"If the Turks occupy Luoyang, His Royal Highness the King of Qin will send troops from Taiyuan, and His Majesty the Emperor will send troops from Chang'an. In such a pinching attack, the city of Luoyang will definitely fall into our hands in the end. The Emperor probably has this idea."

"Don't forget that Jianghuai still has the Young Commander's Army, Bashu Lingnan also has the Song Clan's army, as long as the Chang'an army changes, the Song Clan's army can easily take Chang'an. If we lose the opportunity, the last one to take Luoyang may be The Young Marshal Army. Here, we need to figure out how to fight on two fronts.”

"So, we just watched the Turkic people fight the Yellow River and do nothing? Then we are different from Liu Wuzhou and others." Li Jing said a little angrily. He went to Luoyang to borrow food, and Tang Tian's attitude and thoughts were still very upright. , To deal with the Turks, never let the Turks enter the Central Plains, and the soldiers under him also talked about how to drive the Turks out of our Han territory.Others talked about how to use the Turkic hand to invade Luoyang, and then attack the Turkic strategy. Li Jing heard it harshly, even Hong Funu winked at him, but he didn't care. Li Jing could clearly distinguish at this time. The difference between Li Shimin and Tang Tian is that Li Shimin has transformed from a general to a politician. War is just a means for politicians to seize power, while Tang Tian is a pure soldier, and his goal is to defend his family and the country.He didn't know why Tang Tian wanted to keep Yang Tong before, but now he understood, because Tang Tian didn't want to be a politician, and Yang Tong could just make up for it.

Li Jing's words silenced the entire conference hall. Everyone looked at you, I looked at you, and finally looked at Li Shimin.Li Shimin also frowned and remained silent.

Li Jing looked at Li Shimin's attitude, and his heart sank. It was obvious that the Li faction had already made a deal with Tang Tian not to set foot in Luoyang, and relying on Turkic soldiers was the best way now.

In the Daliang City Camp, Tang Tian plotted the distribution of the Turkic Army's forces on the map bit by bit.After all, Fengqiu is only a group of counties, unable to accommodate [-] Turkic cavalry and [-] infantry, so troops are distributed in several nearby cities. For Tang Tian, ​​the flow and width of the Yellow River can't stop him at all. After a few ups and downs, he arrived on the other side. He still didn't give up the idea of ​​burning food and grass, so he went a few times to check the enemy's situation, and didn't take much action.

"If Li Shimin doesn't send troops to deal with the Turks within three days, you have to be prepared to face the Turkic army alone."

"Huh?" Tang Tian looked up at Shi Zhixuan, "Li Shimin wants to reap the benefits of being a fisherman?"

"If I were Li Shimin, I would definitely cooperate with you, but I really don't dare to compliment the Li family's IQ." When Tang Tian mentioned Kou Zhong's IQ last time, Shi Zhixuan paid attention to it, and asked Tang Tian afterward. When it comes to the struggle between the Li clan father and son, Tang Tian said smoothly that Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng and his son have lowered the IQ of the entire Li clan advisers.Since then, Shi Zhixuan often likes to talk about IQ to show his superiority, because Tang Tian gave him an example, if the Wenqu star in the sky has a full IQ of 99, Shi Zhixuan's IQ will be [-], as for Tang Tian's other people's IQ is about Value, Shi Zhixuan has already ignored it, all he needs to know is that he has raised the IQ of the entire Tiance Mansion.

Shi Zhixuan paused and continued, "The relationship between the Li Clan and the Turks is murky, maybe they will really watch the Turks invade Luoyang, so that they can use the excuse of preventing the Turks from occupying Luoyang, and violate their previous promises, and break into Luoyang. So These three days are crucial."

Tang Tian sneered, "If you want to enter Luoyang, you have to see if the Turkic army has that ability." Tang Tian looked at the distribution of the Turkic army on the map. It would be too far away from these people. Some marked granaries were fake at first glance, and they were built in a hidden way. However, the troops stationed around were no more than [-] people, and there were not enough people to deliver food and grass to other troops.

Shi Zhixuan walked to Tang Tian's side, and pointed his fingers on the map, "These three places are sure to have food, and the others need to be determined."

"I can go and explore again." Tang Tian said.

"No need to explore, I will go with you and burn these three places and other places that are close together. Then you go back to Tiance Mansion, and I will go to Khitan and West Turkic, even if the Turkic army really crossed the Yellow River , as long as you can stick to it for a month, I will definitely make the East Turkic defense line collapse."

"One month?"

"Yes, don't worry, it only takes one month." Shi Zhixuan said appraisingly to Tang Tian's eyes.

Tang Tian was a little moved. He had been studying the map for the past few days. He might not have known how long it would take to walk a short distance on the map, but now he can automatically convert it into a distance when he looks at the map. How long does it take to go from Luoyang to West Turkic? For more than 20 days, plus he still had to go to Khitan, Shi Zhixuan must have traveled day and night to help him defend Luoyang City when he set such a time.

"You really don't have to help me like this."

"If I don't help you, who do you think I should help? Li Shimin? Jieli?" Shi Zhixuan asked.

"Of course I can only help me." Tang Tian let go of the touch in his heart, he was pressed so many times by Shi Zhixuan on the bed.Shi Zhixuan should have helped him, "This time Li Shimin defeated Liu Wuzhou, there is no shadow of Cihang Jingzhai."

"The duel between Cihang Jingzhai's concubine Xuan and Wanhou finally won. For the next 20 years, the Yinkui faction will have the final say in this world. But the Yinkui faction may not dare to appear in front of you. But the movement of the Yinkui faction in Chang'an is not small."

Tang Tian rolled his eyes and thought of Wu Zetian. Li Shimin is also 20 years old this year. Wu Zetian was born in a few years. Did he let Wu Zetian make Li Tang a mess, or help Li Tang get rid of the culprit? Tang Tian's eyes flashed, Li Shimin will let you make your own choice.

At night, Tang Tian was planning to cross the Yellow River with Shi Zhixuan to burn the Turkic granary with Shi Zhixuan, but he didn't expect someone to say that someone from the Song Clan would like to see him.

The person who came was Song Que's son Song Shidao. After all, Song Shidao was the young master of the Song Clan, and Tang Tian couldn't be neglected, so he had to put aside the matter of burning grain and grass.

"I don't know what advice Master Song has come from afar." Tang Tian asked in an official tone.

"General Tang, you don't need to address me like that. Kou Zhong and Ziling are brothers, so I called him Master. This time, I came here in a hurry from Jianghuai Kou Zhong. I'm really sorry for the trouble in the middle of the night. The main reason is I want to tell General Tang about my Song Clan's attitude towards the Turks in the north. My father said that he will fully support General Tang in this battle. Even if there is any change in the direction of Chang'an, our Song Clan's army will definitely attack Chang'an directly."

Song Que had a good vision, saw the current situation very clearly, and made a decision, which was in line with the Song Clan's principle of respecting the Khan.

"You said that Song Que really gave up being emperor because of Fan Qinghui? Now, does he let go of Fan Qinghui or can't let go of Fan Qinghui? Do he still want to be emperor?" After meeting Song Shidao, Tang Tian asked Shi Zhixuan Said it.

"Back then, Song Que had a conflict, whether the way of the sword was important or the throne was more important. In the end, Song Que chose his sword, but he just went down the steps given by Fan Qinghui."

"Then Song Que is now a great master of swordsmanship, ready to fulfill his other wish to fight for world supremacy?"

"Oh, not necessarily. At the level of Song Que and I, we can see the general trend of the world clearly enough. We know what is mine and whether it is mine. It is impossible for Song Que not to see clearly. He has the courage to fight with Li Yuan. Fighting for the world, but his son is not as good as Li Shimin. Otherwise, he would not want to put the future of the Song Clan on Kou Zhong. It might be his last fight to find Kou Zhong as his son-in-law, but Kou Zhong rejected him. He is helping you now just to adapt to the situation, no matter what, just because you have not become the emperor, you are more suitable to be the cooperation partner of the Song clan than the Li clan who has already become the emperor, Song Que absolutely does not want to be sincere with others."

Tang Tian nodded knowingly.

"Okay, it's a good thing for Song Que to help you, we should get down to business now."

"Now? Is it too late?" It's already past the hour.

"No, this time is really the most sleepy and defenseless time for people,"

Tang Tian saw that Shi Zhixuan's attitude was firm, so he nodded. The two sneaked into the enemy camp in the dark. Before dawn, when everyone began to relax their night vigilance, they successively ordered seven or eight granaries of the Turks. Shi Zhixuan met Just order in the granary, but Tang Tian had to think a little bit about it. He said that if there is food in the granary, he will collect it, and if there is no food, he will order it.As for the fact that the Turks discovered that the food and grass had disappeared, let them think it was a ghost.

Seeing unknown smoke rising from the direction of the Turkic garrison, Li Jing immediately sent spies to investigate.

"Someone burned the Turkic granary?" After hearing the spies' report, Li Shiji who was next to him said in surprise, "The burning is real. Doesn't it mean that the specific location of the Turkic grain can't be found?"

"Back to the two generals, the subordinates did not dare to get too close, but seeing that the Turkic army was in chaos, some granaries were on fire, but they ignored them, while some granaries were fighting the fire, and some people didn't know what to say, they were panicking anyway Looking at the flow of people walking around the Turkic military camp, I am afraid that the loss is not clear."

Li Shiji nodded, "It's like Tang Tian's handwriting. It can always grab people's weaknesses and chop them down fiercely." Although he suffered a few times at Tang Tian's hands, Li Shiji didn't feel bad for Tang Tian. On the contrary, there was a surge of ambition. Conceited masters are always lonely, so Li Shiji imagined Tang Tian as an opponent, the only opponent in the world who could fight against him, and set his goal of defeating him.

"His Highness King Qin's worries have come true." Li Jing said in a low voice.

Li Shiji glanced at him, with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes. The opponent he identified was not so easy to defeat. He wanted to stab Tang Tian in the back and then take advantage of it. Li Shiji really didn't like this kind of approach, yes For a soldier, it is right to fight in an open and honest manner. He knew that his ideas were inconsistent with those of Li Shimin's advisers, so he didn't say a word during the discussion that day, "We need to speed up the march, I'm afraid Tang Tian is already preparing to attack the Turkic army, if we don't arrive until Tang Tian defeats the Turkic army, His Royal Highness King Qin's worries will really come true."

After a long silence, Li Shimin broke up the discussion that day, "None of you thought of a situation, if Tang Tian defeated the Turks, then what should we do with ourselves?"

Everyone thought that Tang Tian couldn't deal with the Turks' iron cavalry because they felt that the Li Clan would definitely hold Tang Tian back, but they didn't think about what if Tang Tian could deal with the Turks alone?Li Shimin always felt that Tang Tian's ability was difficult to estimate. With this concern, Li Shimin asked Li Jing and Li Shiji to march to the border with the Turkic territory, ready to obey orders to advance and retreat at any time, because Li Jing was on Tang Tian's side in this matter. It's from Tian's side, and it's no secret that Li Shiji and Tang Tian don't deal with each other.Li Shimin's idea is to let the two of them restrain each other, but he, a politician, will not understand the mind of a general.