The Passionate Guns of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 961

Yang Wenqian was good at observing words and demeanor, and at this time he had already heard that Li Jiancheng was at odds with Chai Shen. He laughed at Chai Shen in his heart, and said in his heart, your Chai family is also a generation of ministers. You have been a prince and minister for so many years and have served you before. How come the three generations of emperors haven't realized the way of being a minister?The king is the leader of the ministers, do you dare to argue with the emperor's words?
This is not a matter of discussion, this is Tuogu.As a courtier, you just obey the order, but do you have to go against the holy will when you just become a prime minister?Even if it's a matter of discussion, you have to add icing on the cake for the emperor's wishes, right?Can there be a good end to the emperor's opinion?

Just thinking about this, when Li Jiancheng asked himself, Yang Wenqian quickly knelt down. Of course he knew what Li Jiancheng liked to hear, so he went down the donkey and said, "Your Majesty, the Turks are greedy, tyrannical, and capricious. The war with the Turks has never stopped, this is our mortal enemy. Now that the Tang Dynasty has been severely injured, I think that going to unite with the Turks is tantamount to sending meat to the tiger's mouth."

After hearing these words, Li Jiancheng's face really looked much better.

It turned out that the crown prince, who had passed by the emperor in history, had a different attitude towards the Turkic people than Li Shimin, the king of Qin, who believed that he could only be an enemy, not a friend.Chai Shen's strategy is similar to Li Shimin's. It's not that Li Jiancheng is short-sighted, but it has something to do with his political career.

According to historical records and speculation by some later historians, Li Jiancheng's literary and martial arts are not inferior to Li Shimin's. In terms of his achievements in establishing the Tang Dynasty, Li Jiancheng once surpassed Li Shimin.This is not a lie, there are detailed historical materials to check.

At the beginning of Li Yuan's army, there were two main bases, one was Bingzhou, which was jointly operated by Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng; the other was Hedong, which was led by Li Jiancheng alone.

As an important military town, Hedong is a strategic point leading to Guanzhong. Li Yuan handed it over to Li Jiancheng, which shows Li Jiancheng's position in Li Yuan's mind.Li Jiancheng lived up to his father's high expectations, gave all he had, and recruited talents from all walks of life. As long as there are seniors with skills, Li Jiancheng treats each other with courtesy and friendship with each other sincerely. Heroes from all walks of life come to vote one after another. He has made great achievements.

After the Anti-Sui War started, the Battle of Xihe was Li Yuan's most important battle, and it was also the first large-scale war with the Sui Army, which was jointly commanded by Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin.During this period, Li Jiancheng showed outstanding military and political talents. He took the lead and visited the front line for inspections, which greatly boosted morale and laid a solid foundation for the victory of this war.In addition, when attacking Chang'an, the first general to kill the top of the city was Li Jiancheng's subordinates
After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, in the unification war to eliminate warlords from all over the country, the last stubborn enemy was Liu Heita, a subordinate of Hebei King Dou Jiande.No one dares to doubt Liu Heitai's literary and martial arts skills, but Li Shimin and Li Yuanji's strategies for Liu Heitai are completely opposite to Li Jiancheng's. Facts have proved that Li Jiancheng is completely correct. The policy of appeasement and solicitation was formulated, and the support of the people in the battlefield was obtained. After several wars, the Liu Heita Group was completely wiped out.

But success and failure, history has been compiled by the winning side since ancient times. Therefore, Li Jiancheng, who suffered a disastrous defeat in the Xuanwu Gate, appears dim in the stars of history.

In terms of his attitude towards the Turkic people, although Li Jiancheng's life is in danger and his views are somewhat extreme, he still has his foresight.

However, once a policy falls into the hands of loyal and treacherous officials, the consequences will be completely different, and this has little to do with the quality of the policy itself.

Li Jiancheng was quite satisfied with Yang Wenqian's flattering remarks, "Yang Aiqing listens."

Yang Wengan was so flattered that he quickly fell to his knees.

"I have granted you the post of Great Sima. After I die, you will do my best to assist Xiangfu to fulfill my last wish, to wipe out the traitor Yang, and to rule the world."

Da Sima is second only to Da Qianyi, and his status is similar to that of the prime minister.The reason why Li Jiancheng appointed another prime minister was because he was worried about Chai Shen's opinions on his own major policies. Of course, he had no doubts about Chai Shen's loyalty to him.

"Thank you Lord Long En, I will definitely not pay what you entrust and spare no effort." Yang Wenqian lay on the ground with a look of gratitude.

This is equivalent to Li Jiancheng entrusting this mess to two people at the same time, but the two people's philosophy of life is completely different, which directly led to Li Jiancheng's Tang Dynasty (later called by Yang Yong as the Western Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty rebuilt by Li Shimin) , was called Dongtang by Yang Yong) had a tragic ending.

Li Jiancheng passed away on the second day after he was left alone.

Chai Shen and Yang Wenqian jointly handled the funeral for Li Jiancheng, and of course he was buried with the royal ceremony.For a while, the white houses in the city of Lizhou were all over the place, and the soldiers and civilians wailed.

At this time, a Turkic iron cavalry had already cruised outside the city of Lizhou.This is the Western Turkic army, with a number of about [-]. The leader of this Turkic army is Jin Lei, the governor under the command of Tong Yehu Khan.

Jin Lei was originally from the Communist Party of China and the brother of the famous Turkic general Jin Hong.A few years ago, Yang Yongsan was sent to Tuyuhun as an envoy to help the government and eliminate evil spirits, and to fight against the Turks.

After Jin Hong's death, the bad news spread to his brother Jin Lei who was only 13 years old. Jin Lei was so sad that he knelt before his brother's spirit and swore an arrow to kill Yang Yong himself to avenge his brother.However, Jin Lei knew that his elder brother Jin Hong was no match for Yang Yong even though he was so powerful, so his two blows were even more useless. When he met Yang Yong, his life was in jeopardy, so how could he talk about revenge?
Although Jin Lei is only 13 years old, he is already the head of the family. In ancient times, he was already married and started a family at the age of thirteen or fourteen.Since then, Jin Lei spent all his money visiting famous teachers and practicing martial arts hard. This training lasted for ten years, and he didn't even marry a daughter-in-law.

After Yicheng, he wanted to avenge Yang Yong wholeheartedly, but at this time the Communist Party had been defeated repeatedly. After Xin Kehan ​​succeeded to the throne, he actually reconciled with Datang. Khan, defected to Tongyehu Khan of the Western Turks.

Tong Yehu Khan is extraordinary, his martial arts are the best in all dynasties. After he succeeded to the throne, he conquered the east and the west, and all the gangs of the vast Northwest Grassland Gang, such as Tiele and Rouran, all belonged to him. Now he is in control Nearly a million, ambitious, not only to unify the Turks, but also to win the Central Plains.

Jin Lei came to join him, Tong Yehu didn't like him at first, and planned to kill him, but no one is Jin Lei's opponent alone.Tong Yehu refused to accept, and the two launched a fair duel. As a result, Tong Yehu Khan was defeated. Jin Lei could have killed him to lead the king himself, but he didn't do that, but bowed to Tong Yehu. Protecting his feet, he expressed his original intention to eliminate Yang Yong and avenge his brother.

Tong Yehu was overjoyed, entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, and bestowed him with a wolf head banner.However, Jin Lei came to Lizhou this time under the orders of Khan, and he joined Datang to deal with Yang Yong.It turned out that Tong Yehu Khan also saw Yang Yong's strength, and he was definitely not an enemy of the Western Turks. United with the Tang Dynasty was his short-term strategy against the enemy.

Therefore, Jin Lei took [-] iron cavalry to place the tooth tent on the grassland fifty miles outside the city, and only brought a few dozen cavalry to the city of Lizhou, ordered people to call the city, and expressed his sincerity to reconcile and resist Yang.

After Chai Shen got the report, he discussed with Yang Wenqian, but the two disagreed. Chai Shen advocated letting Jin Lei enter the city for peace talks, while Yang Wengan advocated keeping Jin Lei out of the city on the grounds of following Li Jiancheng's will.Generals Gongsun Wuda and Zhang Shigui both supported Yang Wengan, and only Huo Xiao, the former defender of Lizhou, supported Chai Shen. Chai Shen had to give up considering the overall situation.

Jin Lei and others waited at the base of the city for a while, but instead of opening the city gate, the soldiers were yelling and cursing and shooting arrows down.

Jin Lei was furious, went back and forth, and soon attracted 1 people to cheer outside the city.Chai Shen advocated sticking to the city, but Yang Wengan refused to accept it, and led Gongsun Wuda and Zhang Shigui with [-] soldiers out of the city to meet the enemy.

The two sides set up a battlefield five miles outside the city. Gongsun Wuda asked for the first battle, but he failed and died in front of Jin Lei's horse.

Yang Wenqian and Zhang Shigui were terrified, and the two horses flew out at the same time, wanting to fight Jinlei together.

(End of this chapter)