Chapter 272: The Battle of Destiny Who belongs to the world

Song Zhengben's words were like a huge rock falling from the sky, causing storms in Liu Heita's heart and could not calm down for a long time.

In fact, Song Zhengben's concerns are not impossible. The reason why there are many people and many powers is not unfamiliar to us who are populous countries. This advantage is also reflected in ancient wars. However, everything has two sides, and a large number of people and many powers may not necessarily bring advantages and victory. In the Battle of Feishui in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a typical example of an attempt to win with superior troops but defeated in a complete defeat.

Now Liu Heita is full of people and powerful people. Since Chen Ying had previously assigned Li Shiji more than 10,000 troops, he asked him to attack Li Yang and then divided his troops to attack Xiangzhou. At this time, Chen Ying's troops had only more than 30,000 troops.

Just one-third of Liu Heita's troops, will Liu Heita, who has an absolute advantage, repeat the mistakes of Cao Cao during the Battle of Red Cliff, and repeat the mistakes of Fu Jian during the Battle of Feishui?

Just when Liu Heita was silent, other Xia army generals, such as Gao Yaxian, Dong Kangmai, and Wang Xiaohu, fell into deep thought. However, the generals looked at Liu Heita in unison, hoping for his decision. However, Liu Heita was also silent at this time, without saying a word, and everyone remained silent. This silence made people feel panic and even more heartbroken.

Liu Heita was silent for a long time before he said: "We are not the Wei army that underestimated the enemy, nor are the Di Qin army that was arrogant back then. Whether it is the Cao Wei army before the Red Cliff or the Di Qin army in the Battle of Feishui, there is actually a fatal problem, internal harmony."

Liu Heita's analysis is not unreasonable. During the Battle of Feishui, historical records only recorded hundreds of words. Xie Xuan tricked Fu Jian into retreating his troops and fighting again across the river. As a result, Fu Jian ordered the Jin army to shout "The Qin army was defeated." However, the Qin army was defeated like a mountain. In fact, the battle of the Battle of Feishui, such as a million-strong army, mainly in three directions. Pengcheng, Xuyi, Weixing and other places in the east were also besieged by the Former Qin army. In the middle road, Nanyang, Xiangyang was attacked by Shiyue and Fu Pi, and in the Huai'an direction, Liu Lao's troops were attacked by 250,000 troops of Fu Rong's troops. There was also a 70,000 army under the command of Pei Yuanluo, the Di Qin general of Bashu.

In fact, as early as the beginning of the decisive battle in Feishui, Fu Jian, in addition to the central army, the troops of Shi Yue, the troops of the eastern vanguard Fu Rong, and the troops of Pei Yuanluo, the troops of Fu Jian's four-way army had already been defeated, but Fu Jian fought stubbornly.

The source components of the Xia army were very complex, and each general was a military-political alliance. For example, Gao Yaxian, the general manager of Baozhou, was the general manager of Baozhou, and also the territory of Yizhou, Zhuozhou, Jizhou, Mozhou, Yunzhou, Yanzhou, Yingzhou, Mozhou, Tanzhou, and Jiuzhou. In other words, nearly one-quarter of Dou Jiande's territory was under the jurisdiction of Gao Yaxian. He was the veritable Northeast King of Xia, while Liu Heita belonged to the Northwest King of Xia, which was in charge of the seven states including Wuzhou, Ruzhou, Guizhou, Xinzhou, Weizhou, Yingzhou, Huanzhou, etc. In Dou Jiande's thirty-nine states, Liu Heita and Gao Yaxian were in charge of a total of fifteen states.

In fact, the generals are actually similar. They are all the grass-headed kings of each prefecture and county. The Xia army also has the same situation of disagreement in the army under Fu Jian.

Liu Heita said: "This is the case when the opportunity comes. You must seize it. Chen Ying is willing to fight with our army. We must work together to lie down first. Let's close the door and solve other things ourselves!"

Liu Heita said everything to this point, and the generals were not fools. Even though he had the idea of ​​preserving his strength, he was wiped out at this moment.

The other troops began to prepare nervously, and Song Zhengben also opened the Mingzhou treasury and distributed the armor, weapons, arrows and various heavy equipment that Dou Jiande had in stock to the generals of the army. Why did Liu Heita rebel later and transferred Hebei one by one, almost making a big splash?

It is because Hebei stored a large amount of equipment. These equipment were prepared by Yang Guang for the East Expedition to Goguryeo and stored in Zhuozhou. As a result, these materials were obtained by Luo Yi in a small part, and most of them were cheaper than Dou Jiande.

The equipment of these king-fighting troops was actually very ordinary. However, as Song Zhengben opened Dou Jiande's warehouse and took out Dou Jiande's treasures. These well-made and well-preserved horizontal swords, stair spears, horse sabers, strong bows, hard crossbows, shields, bed crossbows, and catapults were distributed to the generals of the army.

When these soldiers of the king saw these equipment, they were overjoyed. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, under the military system of the government, these equipment belonged to the soldiers and were sent to the soldiers. Even if they retired, they would not hand over it. They could deal with it whether they were sold or passed on to their descendants.

There was a trace of dissatisfaction and complaint in my heart. At this moment, the Xia army soldiers changed their guns in a blink of an eye and shouted that this trip was worth it.

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When the Xia army was nervously preparing, the Tang army was not idle either. After all, this battle was not a joke. The soldiers of each army wiped their armor and sharpened their knives. The whole army was just idle.

That is Chen Ying. While enjoying the massage of Shentian Huayin comfortably, Chen Ying patiently gave Su Dingfang his ideological work: "Su Dingfang, good ministers choose the lord, why are you so despicable? Look at the strong appearance of the Tang army, with such high morale and so well-equipped equipment, is there a possibility that the Xia army will win?"

Chen Ying was actually also secretly anxious. He was not worried about the war in Hebei, but he had no choice but to worry about Lingzhou.

However, what surprised Chen Ying was that after conquering Shengzhou, the Turkic army did not go south immediately, but instead grazed on the grasslands in the southern desert, as if they were here to make soy sauce.

What Chen Ying didn't know was that there were contributions to the diplomatic contributions of the Tang Dynasty. Tang Jian was ordered by Li Yuan to go on a mission to the Turks and reported to Jie Li He Khan the bottom line of the Tang Dynasty. The general idea was that if we fought with Dou Jiande, don't worry about the matter. Otherwise, we would join forces with Dou Jiande, and the Tang Dynasty and Xia Kingdom could gather together to form a million troops.

If you think you can have fought the million-strong army of our Xia and Tang dynasties, you can try it.

Jie Li Khan said at that time that he believed you, there was a ghost.

But Princess Yicheng doesn't think so.

She is a Han Chinese, she is familiar with this nation and understands this group.

Once the foreign enemies approach, China will really rise together. Princess Yicheng did not know how many people died in the civil strife at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but she knew that in the fifth year of Daye, the Sui Dynasty had a population of more than 60 million, which was thirty times that of the Turks. Even if one of them had ten lives, China could exhaust the Turks' confidence.

After Princess Yicheng's patient persuasion, especially explaining the strength of China and the Turks, Jie Li Khan broke out in a cold sweat. This kind of thing is also very common among the tribes on the grassland. In a tribe, for the position of tribe leader, the leader's sons would be beaten to death. However, at a critical moment, once the entire tribe faces a critical moment of life and death, they would shake hands and make peace, fight against foreign enemies first, and then divide the superiority and inferiority.

In the end, the one who made Jie Li Khan determined to watch was Princess Yicheng who told him that if two tigers fight, one would be injured. Even if the Tang Kingdom defeated Dou Jiande, it would be severely damaged. At that time, the Tang army would definitely not be able to stop the Turkic army from moving south. The pasture at the foot of Yinshan Mountain was also very fertile, enough for these soldiers to herd horses and feed sheep.

Chen Ying realized it later. Until May 23, the third year of Wude, Chen Ying got the exact news that the Turks would not intervene in the battle of fate between the Tang army and the Xia army for the time being.

However, at this time, the news that Chen Ying and Liu Heita were about to fight to the decisive battle also reached Chang'an, and the entire Chang'an City was in an uproar.
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