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Volume One, Chapter 597: Ancestors Have Not Accumulated Virtue

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    "I may not say that. I am definitely not overestimating my capabilities, nor am I underestimating the enemy!" "Yes, the combined strength of the two thieves Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande is indeed better than that of our army. Our army can only deal with one of them alone.  Only then can we ensure a sure victory! But why should we foolishly fight against these two traitors at the same time? Can¡¯t we just focus on killing one of them one by one, and then free up our hands to deal with the other one?  Wouldn't a traitor be enough? " "Don't forget, Dou Jiande has only formed an alliance with Wang Shichong and has not sent troops immediately. Now, both in terms of time and space, we still have enough room to defeat Wang Shichong first and then destroy him.  Dou Jiande!" After hearing Chen Sangliang's arrogant words, the Sui army's civil and military personnel were speechless and quickly started to think carefully about the poison-filled brains of Chen Sangliang. Then soon, the veteran Qu Tutong took the lead.  He raised a question and said: "Your Highness, defeating the enemy one by one is indeed a good strategy to win with less. However, Wang Shichong is currently holding on to the city. It will definitely not be that easy for us to wipe him out. If this siege battle lasts for a long time,  , our army is exhausted again in Luoyang City, and its morale is declining. Dou Jiande leads his army to attack again. Not to mention defeating the two powerful enemies, whether we can block Dou Jiande's new army is a big problem? " "Uh-huh?  Without killing Wang Shichong first, we can never kill Wang Shichong immediately!" Chen Sangliang replied decisively: "Kill Wang Shichong first, and Dou Jiande will not come, so beating Wang Shichong seriously is enough!  He couldn't take care of himself at all, forcing him to do everything he could to beg Dou Jiande to send troops to help him at all costs. This also prevented him from causing trouble during the decisive battle between us and Dou Jiande. In this way, we could use a small amount of power to contain Wang Shichong and put him in trouble.  Most of the strength is concentrated on Dou Jiande, waiting for a decisive battle with Dou Jiande's expeditionary force! Defeat Dou Jiande first, and then turn around to deal with Wang Shichong! " After hearing Chen Sangliang's idea of ????defeating his wishful thinking, Qu Tu  Tong was greatly moved, but after careful calculation, Qu Tutong still reminded him: "Your Highness, such a tactic is easier said than done. Can we severely injure Wang Shichong before Dou Jiande sends troops to help? Not to mention, after severely injuring Wang Shichong, we still have  Regardless of how much military power there is, just how to severely damage Wang Shichong is a big problem. Wang Shichong is currently hiding in Luoyang City and cannot escape. Your Highness, you said that our gunpowder blasting tactics cannot damage the walls of the Eastern Capital Imperial City. So what.  Is that good? " "Yes, our current siege tactics are difficult to quickly capture the Eastern Capital Imperial City and the outer city, but are we not afraid of the Eastern Capital Outer City?" Chen Sangliang said with excitement: "Wang Shichong hasn't given up yet.  As long as we move fast enough to capture the outer city of Dongdu, we can hit Wang Shichong's main force before his thieves retreat into the imperial city. Also, Wang Shichong still has nearly 40,000 thieves?  The army is stationed in Hulao Pass and Luokou Cang. Those two places also have rammed earth walls. We can attack them without much effort. Taking these two places will not only severely damage the strength of Wang Shichong's rebel army, but also  Having mastered the initiative on the battlefield in the Central Plains, can you more calmly face Dou Jiande when he attacks?  " Qu Tutong just shut up, but his expression was obviously still a little worried. He was still worried whether Chen Sangliang's tactic of using the snake to swallow the elephant was too risky. Most of the other Sui soldiers were like this, only Luo Shixin and Xue Renguo.  He and Guo Feng and several brave generals cheered loudly, believing that Chen Sangliang's tactic would be successful. Chen Sangliang, who believed that he would do better than the old Li family, did not hesitate and immediately made the decision: "That's it.  , first severely inflicted Wang Shichong's main force, then captured Luokou Cang Hulao Pass, and faced Dou Jiande while waiting for work!  Destroy Dou Jiande, then go back and destroy Wang Shichong!  " Dictatorship has this advantage. Although most of the Sui army's civil and military officials were skeptical of Chen Sangliang's too greedy and bold decision, now that Chen Sangliang had made up his mind, the accomplices and lackeys still did not dare to object at all, and all followed  At Chen Sangliang's request, they immediately began to formulate a tactical plan to eliminate the enemy's main force in the outer city of the Eastern Capital. Then, another Sui army official suggested that the most important acropolis of the Eastern Capital, Jinyong City, be captured first, so that there would be no worries.  Next, he would attack the outer city of Dongdu. However, after careful consideration, Chen Sangliang shook his head and said, "We can't attack Jinyong City first. Once Jinyong City is defeated, the old fox will inevitably be prepared in advance to abandon the outer city and withdraw to the imperial city in order to preserve his strength.  If the situation in the outer city is even slightly wrong, they will all retreat to the imperial city immediately. If they want to catch him off guard, they can only attack the outer city of Luoyang first, and then turn around to deal with Jinyong City.  When attacking the city, it is enough to send an army to monitor the Jinyong City bandits.  " Feeling that Chen Sangliang's words made sense, the Sui army's civil and military forces re-discussed the tactical plan to capture the outer city of Luoyang first. Then Qu Tutong, Liu Heitai, Yuan Tiangang and others unanimously decided to set the main battlefield in the most open terrain.  Go up to Spring Gate and pretend to attack other city gates to contain the enemy.?The main attack was on Shangchun Gate and the city was broken.  However, Chen Sangliang, who had always been prudent in his military tactics, went crazy this time. After just a moment of calculation, he said viciously: "No! Shangchunmen is not the ideal main battlefield, Hui'anmen is! Feint attack  Go to Chunmen and attack Hui'an Gate!" "Your Highness, the terrain around Hui'an Gate is not open enough for our main force to deploy," Yuan Tiangang quickly reminded: "Also, Hui'an Gate is close to the Eastern Capital Imperial City.  , The imperial city defenders of the rebel army can use bows and arrows to threaten our offensive path, which is detrimental to our siege. " "But after our army enters the Hui'an Gate, it can immediately cut off the route of the rebel army from the outer city to the imperial city.  ." Chen Sangliang said calmly: "If you want to eliminate more of the rebels' outer city defenders, you can only break through Hui'an Gate first." The Sui army's civil and military forces looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and were forced to surrender.  Tong and Yuan Tiangang had no choice but to propose attacking Hui'an and Shangchun gates at the same time. At the same time, they set up a false flag of Chen Sangliang commander outside Shangchun gate, so that the Zheng army could not figure out the real main direction of the Sui army's attack. They should use their elite and strong troops to attack Hui'an first.  After installing the gate, they broke through Shangchun Gate and tried to eliminate Wang Shichong's effective forces as much as possible in the battle in the outer city.  Chen Sangliang thought about it for a long time, and then reluctantly accepted this relatively safe tactic, but also specifically told a reserve team to prepare the situation in the Eastern Capital City in advance. After breaking the city, they would immediately attack the Luoshui Bridge and cut off the southern city of Luoyang from the imperial city.  contact in order to eliminate the enemy Nancheng garrison.  At the same time, Chen Sangliang also made an extremely insidious decision to send troops to attack the city in the afternoon and break the city at night. Wang Shichong's imperial city defenders were afraid that the Sui army would take advantage of the chaos and enter the imperial city in the dark, so they did not dare to open the city gates to release the defeated soldiers.  Entering the city creates more opportunities for Sui soldiers to kill the enemy.  The civil and military officers of the Sui army smiled bitterly as they accepted the order, and also murmured in their hearts: "Old thief Wang Shichong, you have found our Tang Dynasty as your son-in-law. Your ancestors really have no good deeds." In addition, the Sui Dynasty  While the soldiers and civilians were carefully discussing specific tactics, Chen Sangliang also called his confidential secretary Sun Fujia aside and whispered in his ear: "Send an absolutely reliable agent to Linming immediately to try to communicate with him.  Wang Xuance got in touch and asked him to induce Li Mi to lead the army to reinforce Wang Shichong no matter what. If he succeeds, he can take the opportunity to come back. " After finalizing the strategic and tactical plan, the Sui army officers immediately made full preparations.  One army was left stationed in the Qianjin Fort that Wang Fubao had snatched to protect road traffic, and the main camp was moved ten miles east of Luoyang, with the Luoshui camp behind it to deter Shangchunmen, and also threaten Jinyong City, and then immediately  Make every effort to prepare siege equipment.  Wang Shichong, who was familiar with his son-in-law's prudent military style, was indeed fooled. He expected that his unfilial son-in-law would first capture Jinyong City and then attack the outer city of Luoyang. In order to buy time to wait for Dou's army to come for reinforcements, he ordered Generals Wang Deren and Zhao Jiqing to defend Jinyong City while at Shangchunmen.  Deploy heavy troops, not only to guard against the treacherous son-in-law's sudden attack on Chunmen, but also to be prepared to send troops at any time to appropriately share the pressure on Jinyong City.  At the same time, Chen Sangliang, who had a reputation for hypocrisy in the eastern capital of Luoyang, repeated his old tricks and issued a memorandum to the soldiers and civilians of Luoyang. After the city was broken, only the traitor Wang Shichong and his family would be killed. The rest would be spared death as long as they surrendered.  In an extremely insidious manner, he directly named Duan Da, Shan Xiongxin, Yang Qing and Yang Wang, Wang Shichong's important confidants, and declared that even if they deserved death for their crimes of aiding Zhou, as long as they opened the city gates and led their troops to surrender, he would forget the blame and be pardoned from the death penalty.  And award them as appropriate.  This was used to drive a wedge between Wang Shichong and his family, which was politically isolated and unpopular.  In addition, Chen Sangliang naturally had to pretend to be a hypocrite who loves the people like his own children and announced that all the people in Henan County will be exempted from all taxes, money and food this year. He used this small sweetener to win over the people of Luoyang, and it also further demonstrated Wang Shichong's commitment to the spring plowing season.  It still aggravates the injustice and cruelty of the people's corvee work.  Although Wang Shichong strictly prohibited the dissemination of Chen Sangliang's proclamation, Chen Sangliang, who was well prepared, ordered soldiers to use bows and arrows to shoot a large number of proclamations into Luoyang City. He also arranged for soldiers with loud voices to read the contents of the proclamation loudly under the city, and let the guards on the city  The army knew that His Royal Highness the Tang Dynasty was kind and caring for the people and had a kindhearted heart.  It turned out that it really had some effect. The overwhelmed people in Luoyang all longed for Chen Sangliang, who had once jumped into the flood to plug the gap for the people, to rush into the city to rescue them as soon as possible. The civil and military officials of the puppet government also breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, feeling that  Since Chen Sangliang can pardon Lian Duanda and Yang Qing, the chief culprits, then as long as he surrenders after the city is broken, it will definitely not be a big problem to save his head, property, and life.  After seven days of careful preparations, at noon on the sixth day of March, the main force of the Sui army suddenly launched a large-scale attack. Liu Heitai led 10,000 troops north to Jinyong City to monitor and contain the Zheng army there. Chen Sangliang personally led 48,000 troops.  Thousands of officers and soldiers of the Sui army marched westward and formed a formation at Shangchun Gate. They divided another 13,000 troops to continue marching westward and leisurely formed a formation under Hui'an Gate just north of Luoyang.  The unfilial son-in-law did not attack Jinyong City first, but came directly to attack the outer city of Luoyang. Wang Shichong was also wary of this beforehand, so heHe was not too frightened, but the unfilial son-in-law deployed a force that could not be ignored outside Hui'an Gate. Wang Shichong felt that something was wrong, and he also had some doubts about the true purpose of the unfilial son-in-law.  However, Duan Da was too smart to believe that Chen Sangliang wanted to disperse the strength of the Dongdu defenders so that they could not rescue each other despite the distance. At the same time, it also had the effect of containing the Zheng Army's Imperial City defenders and reducing Shangchun's situation.  Gate battlefield pressure.  After hearing this, Wang Shichong felt that it was reasonable, and then he felt a little relieved. In addition to fully preparing for the battle, he also hurriedly prepared to abandon the outer city and withdraw to the imperial city at the critical moment.  Because they carried ten heavy artillery pieces and a large number of heavy siege weapons, the Sui army's partial division under the command of Qu Tutong did not line up north of Hui'an Gate until it was close to Shen; during this period, outside Shangchun Gate,  The main force of the Sui army under the banner of Chen Sangliang had already begun a routine artillery attack to clear the way. Twenty artillery pieces fired ten rounds in unison, blasting the city tower at Shangchun Gate to pieces and blasting the defenders at the top of the city so that they did not dare to raise their heads.  , and also discovered through firepower that Wang Shichong had blocked the city gate corridor with sandbags.  Then the trebuchets of the Sui army came forward. More than two hundred trebuchets poured stone bullets at the top of the city, smashing the top of Shangchunmen with holes. Finally, the shieldmen and archers entered the battle.  A dense storm of arrows covered the top of the city. The Zheng army defenders also fired back with bows and arrows. Arrows flew like locusts in the sky. In about half an hour, a total of more than 200,000 feather arrows were fired at each other. This is also what Chen said.  This is what Sang Liang hates the most about critical battles.  At the same time, the Sui army's partial division under the banner of Qu Tutong had also begun to pour artillery fire on the Hui'an Gate. They first smashed the Hui'an Gate tower to pieces, and also destroyed the Deyou Gate tower of the imperial city nearby on the right.  , also forced Zheng Jun's imperial city defenders to quickly block the gate corridors of Hui'an Gate and Deyou Gate with sandbags, and cut off the road out of the city themselves.  Then Qu Tutong sent trebuchets and archery teams forward to confront the Hui'an Gate defenders and consume long-range weapon reserves.  When the time was past half of You hour, the fighting suddenly stopped. He saw the Sui army soldiers eating dinner on the spot in the distance on the city. Wang Shichong understood that the Sui army was definitely going to launch a night battle, so he quickly asked his army soldiers to seize the time to eat, and at the same time prepared a large number of torches.  and bonfires and other night fighting objects.  However, Li Shiying, Wang Shichong's most important counselor second only to Dai Zhou, saw that something was wrong, ran to Wang Shichong and warned: "Your Majesty, the bandit army just sent out troops at noon, and first attacked with artillery and bows and arrows, delaying the time until almost evening.  The intention seems to be to capture the outer city at night, and then severely damage our army in the street battles in the outer city, so that our army will not have enough troops to defend the imperial city. To be cautious, it is best for your majesty to immediately start arranging the withdrawal of troops and concentrate on strength.  The priority is to defend the imperial city." After hearing this suggestion, Wang Shichong hesitated for a while, but after careful consideration, Wang Shichong still shook his head and said: "We can't withdraw. The rebel army has already reached the city. At this time, the soldiers in the outer city must withdraw their troops and return to the imperial city.  They will think that they have been abandoned by us, which will seriously shake the morale of the army and give the rebels a chance to break through the outer city of Luoyang faster. "It cannot be said that Wang Shichong's worries are unreasonable. The exhausted Zheng Army soldiers can no longer withstand the decline in morale and morale.  The blow was shaken, so Li Shiying did not insist too much, but reminded again: "Your Majesty, be careful of the bandits outside Hui'an Gate. If they enter the city from Hui'an Gate, they will immediately cut off our Shangchun Gate."  The main force is on its way back to the city. Your Majesty believes that it is best to mobilize some of the reserve troops deployed in Beishi to strengthen the Hui'an Gate.  He knows that before fighting, he must first consider not losing, but also first consider how to minimize the loss of soldiers. Hui'an Gate is protected by the bows and arrows of our imperial city defenders, and he will never dare to launch the main attack from here. " Facts have proved Wang Shichong's guess!  As expected, just after Youshi, when the two Sui armies launched their attacks at the same time as agreed, the fighting at Shangchun Gate was obviously several times more intense than at Hui'an Gate.  In the first wave of siege alone, the Sui army soldiers threw more than 600 flying ladders and more than 50 pointed wooden donkey carts at Shangchunmen. The Zheng army soldiers rose up to fight and fought with the siege Sui army until the sky was dark and the earth was dark.  , cannot be opened.  The scale of the battle at Hui'an Gate was much smaller, but the intensity was not as intense as that at Shangchun Gate. During the fierce battle, artillery continued to bombard the northwest corner of the Luoyang Imperial City, suppressing the Zheng Army's archery troops on the city, and flying  While the Ladder Ants were attacking the city, they also invested a large number of pointed wooden donkey carts to attack the city wall.  Here we must also introduce what a pointed wooden donkey cart is. This siege weapon invented by Hou Jing is a four-wheeled cart. The cart has a roof that looks like a roof to prevent arrows, and can also effectively slide away and be smashed down from the city.  The stones are hidden in the cart, and people can push the cart forward. When leaning against the city wall, you can hide under the cart and dig the city wall. Only by concentrating a large number of boulders or attacking with swallow-tailed torches can the city wall be effectively destroyed. This was a very common practice in the era of rammed earth city walls.  siege weapons.  "However, the results of digging the city wall only by manpower are naturally slow, so Chen Sangliang had previouslyThis kind of weapon was not paid much attention to when using troops. It was rarely manufactured and rarely used. However, with the rise of another siege tactic, Chen Sangliang, who needed to effectively dig the city wall, picked up this kind of weapon and manufactured it in large quantities.  Used as the main weapon for siege.  Treat him as a treasure when he needs it, and treat him as a straw when he doesn't need it. From this point, we can also see how realistic and snobbish our Chen Sangliang is in addition to being extremely conscientious.  The puppet government had actually suffered heavy losses from this new tactic in the Battle of Xin'an. Unfortunately, it was also at night when the city of Xin'an was broken, and it was too dark for the Zheng Army soldiers to see what the Sui Army soldiers were actually using.  How did you collapse the Xin'an city wall?  Therefore, even if a certain number of Xin'an defenders fled back to the Eastern Capital City, the puppet government still did not understand the reason for the destruction of Xin'an City. Naturally, they did not pay enough attention to the pointed wooden donkeys that Chen Sangliang dispatched in large numbers for the first time. Hui'an Gate is still  The main force was concentrated on dealing with the Sui army's ant attack on the city, and they did not fully respond to the Sui army soldiers who were digging the rammed earth city wall. Anyway, they only had a few hours, and the Sui army soldiers could not even think of digging a road into the city.  And even if it is dug out, it can be dealt with easily.  In addition, the fighting power of the Sui soldiers who attacked Hui'an Gate was also an important reason why the Zheng soldiers had no time to think about anything else. Even if only one Sui soldier climbed up the city wall, he could usually kill and injure several Zheng soldiers.  , covering the next companion to ascend the city from the flying ladder, so the Hui'an Gate defenders tried their best to deal with the ant-attached Sui army, and they had no time and energy to attack the pointed wooden donkey carts under the city.  Those who knew nothing about the Sui army's new tactics would naturally have to pay a heavy price. More than half an hour passed unknowingly after the fierce battle. When Wang Shichong, who was sitting in the imperial city, was nervously paying attention to the progress of the battle in Chunmen on the main battlefield, nearby people  At the battlefield of Hui'an Gate, two loud noises were heard one after another. The sound was like huge thunder. The volume was far greater than the sound of the Sui army's artillery fire. Even though it was far enough away, it shook the palace window lattice.  Trembling slightly.  Hearing these two loud noises, Wang Shichong was stunned for a moment, and then an unknown premonition suddenly came to his mind, and he secretly said: "What happened? Don't let anything happen to Hui'an Gate, then I will immediately  There will definitely be heavy losses if we withdraw the troops from the outer city Bah! No! "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! The one who is supposed to come will come soon."  He rushed up to the Jinluan Hall and screamed like a slaughtered pig before he could salute, "Your Majesty! Something bad has happened! The wall east of Hui'an Gate suddenly collapsed, and two sections collapsed!" "What?  !" Wang Shichong stood up in shock, and his face suddenly turned dark.  "Also." The guard screamed again: "Also, the flag of the bandit commander outside Hui'an Gate suddenly changed to Chen Yingliang's flag of the Tang Dynasty! The bandits are attacking in large numbers and are entering the city through the gap in the city wall!  "I've fallen into the trap!" Wang Shichong's dark face suddenly turned pale again, and his clothes were soaked in cold sweat. After finally coming back to his senses, the first thing Wang Shichong did was to roar wildly, "Quick! Send the order!"  ! Let all the outer city defenders retreat to the imperial city! Hurry, or it will be too late!¡±
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