Yang Yuanqing's garrison was not in Liangchuan County, but in Mijia Town, about a hundred miles east of Liangchuan County, in addition to 10,000 cavalry, there were 35,000 Tang troops surrendered. After several days of rectification, all surrendered troops were all.
They were disbanded and re-detached. The officers above the brigade commander were all promoted from the Sui army cavalry, and the team started queuing training on the snowy field in the south of the town.
A team of soldiers shouted loudly, "The array is trained in long spears. The queue training is mainly to adjust the tacit understanding between officers and soldiers, improve the prestige of officers, and enable them to control their subordinates. More than ten days ago, the Tang Dynasty temporarily recruited.
The 60,000 new recruits did not undergo this kind of running-in training, which led to the final chaos.
Thousands of large tents were laid near the east of the town, and the largest one was located in the middle of the group tent. At this time, Yang Yuanqing was standing in front of a map of Hexi, studying
The combat progress of the Sui army.
Eight days have passed since the Sui army attacked Hexi, and both Wuwei County and Jiuquan County have been captured. A 500-man vanguard from Su Dingfang successfully attacked Dadoubagu Army City at night, blocking the only passage for Zhangye garrison to escape to Xiping County.
Now Pei Renji's army and Su Dingfang's army have formed an encirclement of 10,000 Hexi Tang troops and forced the other side to surrender. In fact, Yang Yuanqing was not very interested in whether the 10,000 Tang troops surrendered. He was interested in the war horses in Hexi. Pei Renji's report said,
He had basically controlled all the major ranches, which made Yang Yuanqing feel a little relieved.
At this time, did his eyes turn to Hehuang again? He wanted to cut off the war horses of the Tang army, not only Hexi, but also Xihai County, Lintao County and other border grasslands. Even if the Tang Dynasty did not set up a horse farm in Hehuang, they could
Purchased from Tuyuhun, this path must be cut off from the Tang Dynasty.
Not only did the war horses and take over the Hehuang area, the Tang Dynasty not only completely lost its strategic depth west of Guanzhong, but also the Sui army also formed a strategic siege of Guanzhong. It was just around the corner that he had been waiting for this day for a long time, and it was meaningful to take over Guanzhong.
He unified the north.
Just as Yang Yuanqing was thinking about sending an envoy to Tuyuhun, a personal soldier outside the tent reported, "Report to Your Highness, the scouts have heard that the envoy of the Tang Dynasty is twenty miles away."
Yang Yuanqing nodded. Li Jiancheng finally came. He received an emergency report from Chang'an spies yesterday. The Tang Dynasty had sent an envoy, the chief envoy was the crown prince Li Jiancheng, and the deputy envoy was Nayan Chen Shuda. Li Yuan actually sent such a high-standard negotiation lineup, which is indeed
It surprised him a little. This also shows Li Yuan's anxiety about the truce.
Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment and said, "Please thank Mr. Xie to see me!"
Xie Shilang is Xie Sili, the Minister of War. He came from Taiyuan the day before yesterday to report the situation in Taiyuan to Yang Yuanqing. He mainly repaired the Jinyang Palace, destroyed cities and houses, and the progress of the implementation of the equal land system. These are what Yang Yuanqing is very concerned about.
Condition.
However, Xie Sili's arrival happened to give Yang Yuanqing a negotiating deputy. Generally, the deputy talks first, and the negotiations are almost done, and then the two parties will finally reach a consensus and sign an agreement. It can be said that the deputy is responsible for the main negotiation tasks.
Xie Sili quickly walked into the tent and bowed, "See Your Highness!"
"I just got the news and they have arrived, twenty miles away." Yang Yuanqing smiled.
Xie Sili immediately understood what Yang Yuanqing meant and bowed and said, "I will go and welcome them now."
Yang Yuanqing told him again: "Etiquette is a must. After all, the other party is the prince, but you don't have to be too polite. Let them understand that they have something to ask for us. I, Yang Yuanqing, don't care whether to negotiate or not."
"I understand!"
Xie Sili gave a bow and quickly walked out of the account. Yang Yuanqing walked to the map again, and his eyes fell on Hehuang again. For him, Yang Yuanqing, all negotiations were fake, and negotiations were just to delay a period of time.
Just time, giving him time to rest his troops is like retracting his fist to hit him more forcefully...
On the snowy field ten miles south of Mijia Town, a team of thousands of people was driving north along the way. The team was following three or four carriages. Li Jiancheng opened the curtain and the cold wind blew in his face.
He focused on looking at the mountains in the distance. He had passed by here a few times before, but he never realized that Huining County actually contained huge wealth.
It was the silver mine in Huining County that triggered a series of disputes now, which led to a huge crisis in the Tang Dynasty. Thinking of the crisis, Li Jiancheng felt even heavier. He knew that the Tang Dynasty is now full of dangers, which can be described as internal and external troubles.
But as the prince, the solution he thought of was to stop the troops, stabilize the Sui Dynasty, seize the time to solve internal problems, save as much money and grain as possible, and solve the land problem, and persuade the Guanlong nobles and royal relatives to make appropriate arrangements.
A little land was released so that the court could implement the equal-land system. In this way, it could capture the hearts of the people and boost morale. Perhaps there was still a glimmer of hope in the Tang Dynasty.
The key is to solve the problem of internal strife. Li Jiancheng has realized the seriousness of this problem. The repeated failures of the Tang army are largely related to internal strife. If internal unity cannot be united, how can it defeat the Sui Dynasty?
Fortunately, the father also saw the consequences of this internal strife and finally decided to take over the military power of the King of Qin. This is a key step in the right direction. I hope it is still time. Li Jiancheng sighed, not knowing that this negotiation, the Tang Dynasty
How much does it cost?
"Your Highness!"
The shouts of soldiers came from afar. Li Jiancheng looked north and saw a group of small black dots running from afar. Soon, the soldiers who had just shouted came forward to report: "Report to Your Highness,
The people who were welcomed by the Sui army came."
Li Jiancheng felt relieved, that's good. Yang Yuanqing paid attention to etiquette, so that he would not make things difficult for him, nor would he detain himself. Although Li Jiancheng told others that Yang Yuanqing would not do the most deemable thing like detention, he was in his heart.
Still a little worried, now, he finally felt relieved.
Soon, Xie Sili rushed over under the escort of more than a hundred cavalrymen. He was led to Li Jiancheng's carriage. Xie Sili bowed and said, "In the minister of the Ministry of War of the Great Sui Dynasty, Xie Sili, see His Highness the Crown Prince!"
"It turns out to be Mr. Xie, I have been relied on for a long time."
Li Jiancheng also smiled and replied with a smile. He knew that Xie Sili, one of Yang Yuanqing's confidants, was probably the deputy envoy of this negotiation. He asked again: "How far is this place from the King of Chu's headquarters?"
"Report to Your Highness, it's only seven or eight miles."
"Since that's the case, I'll ride on my horse."
Li Jiancheng ordered someone to bring his white horse. He turned over and walked with Xie Sili. The cold and fresh wind blew towards him, which made Li Jiancheng feel refreshed.
Li Jiancheng smiled and said, "Has Mr. Xie been following His Highness the King of Chu?"
"I came from Taiyuan yesterday and reported some things to His Highness the King of Chu."
"oh!"
Li Jiancheng's eyes rolled and asked tentatively: "I heard that 30,000 Turkic cavalry were trapped in Jingxing. I wonder if they have been wiped out now. We are also worried that these brutal Turks will escape and endanger the people."
This information is very important, which is related to whether Yang Yuanqing is eager to return to Taiyuan and whether the Tang Dynasty can win peace with the minimum price. Li Jiancheng seemed nothing happened on the surface, but his heart was hanging.
Xie Sili is also a veteran of negotiating. How could Li Jiancheng make a news? He sighed and said, "We are also very concerned about this issue, but Your Highness knows that the division of the Sui Dynasty's military and political affairs is the military's affairs. The court does not know the recent situation. Your Highness
, sorry.”
"It's nothing, I'm just asking casually."
A kind of unconcealed disappointment appeared on Li Jiancheng's face. Helplessly, he sighed again: "I heard that Jinyang Palace was burned, which is heartbreaking!"
Xie Sili smiled, "This... we are not very sad."
"Why?" Li Jiancheng asked in confusion.
"Because although Jinyang Palace was burned, we had transferred personnel and supplies in advance, no one died, nor a grain of food was robbed, so everyone was very excited. Now we work together to repair it, and it has almost been restored, Your Highness said
By the way, as long as people are preserved, all wealth can be recreated."
"Well said!"
Even Li Jiancheng couldn't help but praise it. This has always been his concept. People are more important than mountains. Yang Yuanqing, a general on the battlefield, actually had this idea. It was not simple. Li Jiancheng sighed secretly. Could it be that Juntian Ling of the Sui Dynasty
The key to being able to be implemented smoothly is that the superiors attach importance to the people’s sentiments!
In contrast, the father rewarded a large amount of land to the royal relatives, which caused the current dilemma of no land to be divided, which made Li Jiancheng sigh.
Everyone walked a few miles and passed by a team of soldiers trained. There were tens of thousands of soldiers training. Duan Decao suddenly stepped forward and whispered to Li Jiancheng: "Your Highness, these were originally Tang troops."
Li Jiancheng was stunned. He stopped the war horse and looked at the trained soldiers. The soldiers seemed to have not seen them at all. They did not come forward and turned a blind eye to them.
Li Jiancheng stood there for a while and heard a burst of shouts. The soldiers were full of morale and fighting spirit. A trained officer shouted: "That's it. If you kill the enemy, you will be rewarded. When you fight, your family will be assigned to the land.
Relieve taxes, work hard for His Highness the King of Chu, and earn a rich family business."
The soldiers were even more excited, and shouts of killing sounded. Li Jiancheng sighed long. It was that simple, but unfortunately the Tang Dynasty could not do it.
He felt sad and walked two miles more and closer to the camp gate. At this time, a team of cavalry stepped forward and bowed with fists and said, "I can only entrust your highness to the army order of the King of Chu. The Tang envoy can only enter the camp with twenty people.
The rest of the followers camped ten miles away!”
Duan Decao glanced at Li Jiancheng and solicited his opinions. Li Jiancheng nodded, "According to the rules of the Sui army."
Duan Decao had to lead his army to follow the Sui army soldiers. Li Jiancheng and Chen Shuda were only twenty followers, led by Lang General Yang Rong.
At this time, Li Jiancheng looked at the Lang General Yang Rong, and saw that he lowered his head and seemed very nervous. A strange thought suddenly surged in Li Jiancheng's heart. I wonder what Yang Yuanqing would look like when he saw Yang Rong later.