The Passionate Guns of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 343 The Essence of Feudal Warlords

It is the military's business to fight or not to fight. However, it is the homeless people who are more miserable at this time.

There are more than [-] ordinary people living in Mingshui County. When Dou Jiande's troops first arrived in Mingshui, in order to win people's hearts, Dou Jiande reduced taxes and exempted taxes, and even worked for the common people to build houses. Became the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva who saves suffering.

But the good times didn't last long. With the arrival of a heavy snowfall, Dou Jiande's image collapsed, and the nature of the feudal landlord and warlord was fully exposed.The common people never expected that the new year would become their doomsday. Of course the common people knew that it was not because of the snow or the New Year. The root cause was the arrival of Dou Jiande's army. To the ice and snow.

But what can the unarmed ordinary people understand?In this turbulent age, who can call the shots for vulnerable groups like them?At this point, who cares about their lives?For a moment, refugees were everywhere in the snow and ice outside Mingshui City, crying and wailing in the wind and snow, like mourning a concubine.

You can see it in a few days, in the streets and alleys, in and out of the city, refugees who died of cold and starvation and turned into zombies can be seen everywhere.No one came to bury the corpse, and it was pecked and wailed by eagles who had nowhere to look, and wild dogs fought for it, which was horrible.

The other soldiers turned a blind eye to these tragic scenes, and even took them for granted, but there were only two exceptions, namely Liu Ya, Dou Jiande's great counselor, and Su Dingfang, a young general.

Seeing Dou Jiande's brutality, the common people were homeless, forced to sleep on the street, and frozen corpses were everywhere, the two of them saw it clearly, and felt pain in their hearts, and a strong rebellion against Dou Jiande arose in their hearts.The two of them thumped in their hearts, and after a long time of quarreling, the one we risked our lives to protect was not a wise lord, but it was revealed at a critical moment that this is a cruel and inhuman tyrant!Such a person will wear a royal robe in the future and rule the world. What is the difference between him and the faint king Yang Guang?
The reason why Liu Ya and Su Dingfang have such thoughts is not because of their high level of thought, but because of their background and education.

Liu Ya is an orphan, and he also belonged to the poor class in his early years. When he was desperate, he became a monk. Later, he became a layman, and he was saved by admiration of Dou Jiande, a hero and benevolence.Although Liu Ya is a soldier, he has been baptized in the Buddhist thought of "compassion and compassion" in his heart, and he has a certain class feeling for the poor people.Su Dingfang was born in the general family. He studied both civil and martial arts since he was a child. He was familiar with military books and war strategies. At the age of 15, he followed his father to conquer and kill bandits.

Therefore, the two saw that Dou Jiande drove the people out and let his soldiers occupy the houses for heating. On the surface, Dou Jiande was thinking about his soldiers, so as to stabilize the morale of the army and win the hearts of the people. In fact, it was all for himself.With the level of Liu Ya and Su Dingfang, they have already recognized Dou Jiande's true face. For their own hegemony, they disregarded the life and death of the people, and made a fuss for a long time.Therefore, the two of them had their own plans after thinking about it.

On this day, Liu Ya came to see Dou Jiande: "My lord, since I can't fight Yang Yong right now, I still have a plan to speed up Yang Yong's demise."

"Oh, what's the strategist's plan, tell me quickly." Dou Jiande's eyes lit up.

"Our old neighbor Tang Gong Li Yuan, who coerced the emperor to make the princes, was ambitious. He once wanted to recruit us. Now is the time to join hands with him. We can pretend to accept the recruitment, obey Emperor Gong of the Sui Dynasty, and suggest that Li Yuan send troops to kill Yang Yong. In the future, Li Yuan and Yang Yong have never been on good terms, and they have turned against each other several times. With such a good opportunity in front of him, he will definitely agree. At that time, Yang Yong will suffer even worse defeat when he faces the enemy. His subordinates are willing to go to Bingzhou in person to persuade Li Yuan to start the spring Just send out troops and cut off Yang Yong's retreat, what does the prince think?"

After hearing Dou Jiande's applause, Liu Ya immediately packed her bags, took Dou Jiande's autographed letter, and a few personal followers, and left Dou Jiande's barracks.

But this walk was like mud and cows sinking into the sea, and there was no more news.Until March of Yangchun in 611, when the ice and snow melted, there was still no news of Liu Ya.Dou Jiande couldn't sit still anymore, it's been two or three months, logically speaking, he should have come back long ago, could it be that something happened to the military division?Li Yuan locked up people, or killed them?

Dou Jiande was restless and waited for a few days, but there was still no news of Liu Ya and Li Yuan.Dou Jiande couldn't wait any longer, and his soldiers couldn't wait a long time ago. At this time, Dou Jiande's troops were strong and well prepared, and the morale of the soldiers was very high to regain Mingzhou and fight Yang Yong.

Dou Jiande decided to go to war with Yang Yong in Mingshui, and pulled the 50 troops to the north bank of Mingshui, posing as if he was sinking his boat.

At this time, Yang Yong on the south bank of Mingshui had already prepared for him.Now Yang Yong has tens of thousands more soldiers and horses and a few generals, and Yang Yong's total soldiers and horses have reached 25.

Because just after the end of the new year, Xu Maogong, a military adviser far away on the battlefield in Bianzhou, worried that Yang Yong would not have enough soldiers. After discussing with the generals, he drew [-] soldiers from his command and let generals Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, and Luo Shixin lead them. He came from Bianzhou to support Yang Yong, while Xu Maogong took more than [-] soldiers including Shan Xiongxin, Hou Junji, and Ding Tianqing to continue to defend Bianzhou and Liangzhou to resist the attacks of Fan Yuan, Cao Zhan, and Sun Linpu on the opposite side.

Although 5 horses are not many, these three generals are too powerful, Yang Yong was overjoyed.Seeing the weather getting warmer day by day, Yang Yong knew that the time for a decisive battle with Dou Jiande was not far away, so he discussed with Wei Zheng and Li Jing how to deal with Dou Jiande.

As usual, Yang Yong listened to the opinions of two military experts before making a decision.Li Jing looked at Yang Yong and smiled: "Your Majesty, my subordinates think that to break Dou Jiande, we need to say 'delay'. Now Dou Jiande is far superior to us in terms of strength, and he has accumulated a winter's anger and is eager to fight us. He fought with his back and put all his eggs in one basket. We don’t want to fight him, we should avoid his spirit first, wear him down for a while, and then fight him decisively, and we will win.”

Hearing this, Yang Yong praised in his heart, a military strategist is a military strategist, in the process of strategizing, the decisive victory is thousands of miles away, it seems that Li Jing is called the god of war, and it is not for nothing, so he nodded and said: "The words of the military strategist are exactly what I want." After speaking, he looked at Wei Zheng again.

Wei Zheng added: "Wuliang Tianzun. My lord, Dou Jiande came for Mingzhou. We must first ensure that Mingzhou is safe and sound, and then spend time with him. However, this is Dou Jiande's old den, so my subordinates suggest digging a deep hole. , Guangji Liang, we must be prepared to stick to the city for a long time, so that Mingzhou can become a nail and play a role."

Yang Yong laughed loudly after hearing this, patted Wei Zheng and Li Jing on the shoulders and said, "Both of you have caught up with Fangmou Duduan, even if this king faces Li Shimin now, there is nothing to be afraid of!"

"What is Fang Mou Duan? Who is Li Shimin?" Li Jing and Wei Zheng looked at each other, puzzled.

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