Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 411
Li Shimin has two swords and one knife, the knife is Dingtang knife. At first, this knife was used by Li Yuan. After Li Yuan abdicated, he passed the knife to Li Shimin. Li Shimin often wore this knife on his body.This knife is made of fine steel, with a thick back and thin blade, calm and stable, and the wearer of this knife can exude the air of an emperor.

Li Shimin's subordinates took Xue Wanche from Princess Danyang. Because Xue Wanche was dull, Princess Danyang ignored him for a long time. Li Shimin summoned all the sons-in-law to drink. Come back together."

Li Shimin deliberately lost the saber to Xue Wanche, and the knife fell into Xue Wanche's hands.Maybe Xue Wanche felt like an emperor after wearing this knife, domineering in the army, and later participated in the rebellion, but was killed by Li Zhi.

After Xue Wanche's death, the knife was taken back and was no longer given to ministers, because this knife would make people exude an imperial aura, which is not a good thing for others except the emperor.

Return two swords, one of the most famous swords is the Longquan sword. According to legend, Ou Yezi and Gan will forge this sword, chisel open Mount Ci, release the stream in the mountain, and lead it to the seven pools surrounded by the Big Dipper beside the sword casting furnace. It is called "Seven Stars".

After the sword is completed, looking down at the sword body is like climbing a high mountain and looking down into the abyss, ethereal and deep as if there is a giant dragon lying on it.It is called "Dragon Yuan".Hence the name of the sword "Seven Star Dragon Yuan", or "Long Yuan Sword" for short.

In the Tang Dynasty, because of avoiding the taboo of the great ancestor Li Yuan, the word "Yuan" was changed to the word "Spring", and it was called "Seven Star Dragon Spring", or "Longquan Sword" for short.

Later, this sword was passed on to Li Shimin, who also loved it very much after he got it. He didn't want it to be a family heirloom, so he directly took it as his burial object.

And the last one is also Li Shimin's saber now. This sword is called Chihu, Chihu Sword.Ancient swords decorated with chi and tiger patterns existed from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Qing Dynasty.

Li Shimin's Chihu Sword is a fake Tang-style sword, more than one meter long, extremely sharp and capable of piercing armor.Chi is Chilong, one of the nine sons of the dragon. The Chihu sword has the power of a dragon and a tiger. Li Shimin took it to fight in the north and south, and finally became the emperor after the change of Xuanwu Gate.

And today Li Shimin gave Li You his Chihu Sword.

Li You took the Chihu Sword with both hands, Li Shimin patted Li You on the shoulder and said: "You used to be my most disappointed son, you made your mother and concubine cry so many times at night.

It may be that the heavens have pity on your mother and concubine, and you turned your prodigal son back a few months ago.

To be honest, at first I didn't believe you, I thought you were faking it, and even sent someone to monitor you, just to see how long you can pretend. Today, my father is here to admit his mistake to you.

Youer, you really turned your back on the prodigal son. You must be careful when you go to Hong County this time. After entering Hong County, you should immediately defend it. Give me three days, no. Two days, my army will definitely arrive, and I will not allow you Die, I want to see you alive and remember, Yuer, this is my will, you must not resist it! "

"Your Majesty, thank you for your decree!" Li You bowed, and then directly hung the Chihu Sword on his waist and shouted: "Your Majesty has a decree, the Tiger and Cardinal Regiment rushed to the aid of Hong County, use me in the first battle, use me to win.! "

With that said, Li You strode out of the Ganlu Hall directly.

"Fifth brother..." Li Zhi's eyes turned red, but Li Tai showed a disdainful expression, and Li Chengqian sighed silently.

Li Shimin closed his eyes slightly.

Li You hung the Chi and Tiger Sword on his waist, and rode his horse directly into the Tai Chi Palace. All the guards dared not stop them when they saw no one. It took Li You less than half a stick of incense to get out of the palace gate that would have taken a quarter of an hour.

"Your Highness!" Xue Rengui, Luo Jin, and Su Dingfang were already waiting outside the palace gate at this time. Seeing Li You galloping out, the three of them hurried up on horseback.

Seeing his three generals, Li You looked at the already dark sky and said, "Your Majesty has an order to order my Huben Regiment to rush to the rescue of Hong County. The three generals sent me an order, and the three battalions will go to Hanshui Ferry immediately. !"

"promise!"

In this way, after Li You got the order, he didn't even enter Dunhuafang, but went directly out of Chang'an City and went to Hanshui Ferry, about [-] miles away.

At this time, the transportation capacity of Dunhuafang reflects that the 1000-member Huben regiment dispatched a total of [-] four-wheeled carriages, and all kinds of materials were uniformly transported to the carriages. They were all taken out.

Not only did he bring the one hundred rhubarb ballistas that had just been assembled, but he also brought all the two hundred divine arm bows, infantry armor, and cavalry sword Li You, one thousand to thirty thousand this time. So you must arm yourself to the teeth.

But this time Li You didn't take the land route. If he took the land route, although he could reach Hong County in one night, it would be exhausting, and even if he arrived in Hong County, he would not be able to immediately join the battle.

This is also the reason why Datang's army was unable to rescue him. Li Shimin sighed silently after watching Li You leave. At this moment, Li Zhi burst into tears and asked, "Father, will fifth brother be all right?"

It's just that Li Shimin didn't answer this question at this time, because Li Shimin was not optimistic about Li You's rescue this time.

On the contrary, Li Tai said slightly from the side: "Three hundred miles along the way, although the fifth younger brother only has 1000 people, they must be exhausted when they arrive. Whether such 1000 people are still capable of fighting is just a matter of opinion. If the regiment has a stronger will, it can last until our army arrives."

"Your Majesty. Or I will take a hundred riders to Hong County. No matter what, I will definitely bring His Royal Highness King Qi back." Li Junxian bowed suddenly.

"No need. I believe in Li You. He will not disappoint me. At this moment, I feel that he is very similar to me. Do you still remember the battle of Hulao?"

The Battle of Hulao, Li Shimin's pinnacle, defeated an army of 3000 with only [-] men.

"At that time, no one was optimistic about me, and everyone thought I was going to die, but I won. Li You is my child, and he will definitely win, and he also brought my Chihu sword , this time must be the time for Youer to take off."

The Battle of Hulao is a truly classic battle of siege and aid. Dou Jiande mobilized more than [-] people, and then joined forces with Wang Shichong's younger brother and marched towards Hulao Pass together.And he wrote a book to Li Shimin, asking Tang Jun to return to Tongguan, return the land of Zheng State, and restore the original territory and relationship.Li Shimin's subordinates suggested avoiding the edge, and then waited for an opportunity to attack Dou Jiande, and eliminated Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong in one fell swoop.This suggestion was affirmed by Li ShiMin and began planning for the Battle of Hulao.

At that time, everyone called Li Shimin a lunatic, because this battle was a battle to the death.

But Li Shimin didn't care at all. Li Shimin assembled the troops and led [-] elites (Xuanjia Army) to Hulao Pass to fight against Dou Jiande. The rest stayed behind to surround Luoyang.

On the 25th, as soon as Li Shimin arrived in Hulao, he led an elite cavalry to the east of the city to spy on the enemy and inspect the battlefield.

Dou Jiande's army thought it was a scout of the Tang army, so he didn't care.But Li Shimin directly yelled that I was the king of Qin, which directly attracted Dou Jiande, and Dou Jiande hurriedly led the cavalry to encircle and suppress Li Shimin.

It's a pity that Dou Jiande's troops were not as effective as Tang Jun, and Li Shimin led the troops to break out.The unfavorable initial battle caused the morale of Dou Jiande's army to be low, and Li Shimin roughly grasped important military information such as geographical terrain and the enemy's formation.

Later, Dou Jiande's army was terrified of being beaten, and they huddled in the city and dared not come out. Some people must have been surprised that they dared not come out of the 500 to [-]. Then I want to tell you about the state of Li Shimin's [-] people.

Among Li Shimin's 500 men, there are more than 1000 famous Xuanjia troops. This is a special force carefully built by Li Zicheng. , Yuchi Jingde, and Zhai Changsun divided them into generals. In every battle, Shi Minqin was commanded by Xuanjia Commander as the vanguard, taking the opportunity to attack, and destroying everything."

The second is that although Li Shimin has the Xuanjia Army in his hands, the initiative on the battlefield is firmly in the hands of Dou Jiande.Dou Jiande didn't seem to be in a hurry to launch an attack. He confronted Li Shimin's troops at Hulao Pass contentedly. In fact, he wanted to reap the benefits of being a fisherman.

It is not surprising that Dou Jiande has this idea.However, Li Shimin will not cooperate obediently.Li Shimin saw through Dou Jiande's small calculations, and led his troops north across the Yellow River, leaving more than 1000 war horses by the Yellow River.

These more than 1000 war horses are more than 1000 tanks now.It is conceivable how much temptation this is for Dou Jiande.Sure enough, it didn't take long before Dou Jiande came out to snatch the horses.

Li Shimin's ingenuity lies in this: Although he tried every means to lure Dou Jiande to fight, when he really came, he couldn't hold on to it, so as to drain the morale of the enemy army.At noon, when the enemy's morale was extremely low, hungry, thirsty and exhausted, Li Shimin suddenly led an army to attack Dou Jiande's camp.

Dou Jiande's 10 troops were beaten to pieces and suffered a crushing defeat.Dou Jiande himself became a prisoner of Li Shimin.

Subsequently, Li Shimin struck while the iron was hot, led his troops to capture Luoyang, and captured Wang Shichong.

In this battle, Li Shimin wrote a classic example of winning more with less, destroying the two countries in World War I, and fully displayed his extremely high military command skills.

More importantly, this battle made all the ridicule and insults in the Tang court disappear, and Li Shimin officially became the god general in everyone's hearts, and Li Shimin's status will no longer be shaken by others.

All the ministers looked at Li Shimin, and seeing that Li Shimin believed in Li You so much, everyone began to believe in silence. At this time, Changsun Wuji suddenly shouted: "Then what are you waiting for? Since You'er can definitely guard Hong County , then we must send troops as soon as possible!"

"Haha!" Li Shimin laughed loudly: "It's still Wuji who knows the key. Come. Give me an order!"

(End of this chapter)