"Is Changchun Palace here?"
Chu Zhen searched the place and found the place. Changchun Palace is about 100 kilometers away from Chang'an, located in the northeast of Chang'an, and 300 kilometers away from Hulao Pass in a straight line.
Li Shimin nodded and pointed at the map: "This is the direction."
"To go to Hulao Pass, we need to cross Luoyang. How do you want to rescue him?"
"Fight steadily, lead only 30,000 troops over, capture some cities along the way to guard the grain road, threaten Luoyang from the west, and order Wang Shichong to withdraw from Wulao Pass."
Li Shimin pointed to the west of Wulao Pass and said: "This is the place occupied by Li Mi. As long as he can hold out at Wulao Pass for some time, his subordinates will gather troops and horses to support him. It will be seen that he will return to Xingyang by then. Or go back to Wagang."
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "Most of his troops have been brought to besiege Luoyang, and the people his subordinates can summon can only add momentum."
"Even so, it can also form a flanking attack."
"It's a pity that you don't have a boat. You took the boat down the river and headed towards Luoyang, overturning Wang Shichong's lair."
"Li Mi sticks to Wulao Pass. Wang Shichong may have guessed that I will come."
The two military geniuses discussed strategies over the map.
Chu Zhen took a lot of topographic maps, listened, and said with a smile: "Why don't you rescue him? Let Li Mi be defeated and flee to Chang'an. Erlang, you will get a lot of powerful generals, including the Wagang Five Tigers, Wei Zheng, Xu Shiji, and so on." None of it is simple.”
Li Qingzhao laughed and whispered to Sister Lin.
They have read history and know how powerful these people are.
Now Chu Zhen pointed out that he wanted Li Shimin to take it for his own use.
"This is a good strategy."
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed.
But Li Shimin shook his head and said: "Wang Shichong is now in sole control of Luoyang, and the Eastern Capital is already prosperous. If he occupies the territory of the Wagang Army again, and uses the order of the Sui Emperor to recruit the remnants of Wagang and recruit wise men, he will surely succeed in the future. Serious trouble."
Although the Li family was also in rebellion, they did not recognize Yang Tong who had ascended the throne in Luoyang because they had already founded the country.
Chu Zhen smiled and said: "What if Wang Shichong ascends the throne and proclaims himself emperor?"
"He calls himself emperor?"
Li Shimin thought about it carefully and said: "Wang Shichong's family background is not obvious. He followed his mother's surname Wang, and he was appointed as the general guard of Jiangdu due to his military exploits. Xue Shixiong, the general of the left imperial guard, was killed by Dou Jiande, and Wang Shichong was able to lead Luoyang's troops.
He could be a powerful minister and support the King of Yue to occupy Henan. If he usurped the throne and established himself, the old officials of the Sui Dynasty might not obey him. "
"As expected of Erlang! His analysis is very orderly."
Chu Zhen could only admire.
Li Shimin pointed out that Wang Shichong's biggest weakness was that he was not in the right position and the people were not unified, which caused the old officials of the Sui Dynasty to open the city gates and surrender one after another after the Tang army invaded. Wang Shichong's territory fell apart in an instant, and Luoyang became an isolated city again.
Coupled with Wang Shichong's character problems, although he could treat the surrendered generals well, in the end all those captured by him turned their backs on him.
For example, the group of Wagang Army.
Therefore, it is true that not everyone can be Sima Yi, even Cao Cao did not usurp the Han.
"Let me show you a video."
After taking a screenshot of the map, Chu Zhen said to Li Shimin and the other four.
"video?"
Li Qingzhao pulled Lin Daiyu to Chu Zhen's side.
Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang took a look at this little lady from Dashun Chao Lin, who was shy about being in public. They saw that although she was young, she was already extremely beautiful, and her beauty could no longer be concealed.
Lin Daiyu's face was slightly red, she saluted the two of them, and then she and Li Qingzhao came to Chu Zhen's side.
"You can watch the video as a song, dance or opera. It is performed."
Chu Zhen explained and clicked on a video edited by someone else on a certain Danmaku website.
The video is called:
A song "Serving the Country with Loyalty", watching the national hero Zheng Chenggong regain Taiwan Island, and every inch of the country's territory must be fought for.
After the previous short scene, a general drew his sword and ordered the entire army to set off.
The majestic and exciting music sounded.
"When the smoke rises, the mountains and rivers look north."
On the sea, hundreds of warships raised their sails, and the war was about to break out.
Li Qingzhao was particularly excited when he saw it. He held Lin Daiyu's little hand tightly and looked at the computer screen.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shimin were watching the projector.
"Zheng Chenggong's father's name is Zheng Zhilong."
Chu Zhen explained the background to them: "In his early years, he led the people to reclaim wasteland on Ryukyu Island. He was regarded as a pirate. When the Qing army came, the Zheng family led the troops to resist. Because of his meritorious service, he was given the surname Zhu by Emperor Menglong Wu of the Southern Ming Dynasty. He was also known as Success. 'The country's surname is Ye'."
This sentence made Zhu Yuanzhang look heavy.
War drums sound.
Li Shimin heard a violent sound, fireworks came out of the iron pipe, and a large number of soldiers climbed onto the city wall with an iron rod.
Just when he didn't know what to do, a large number of thunderous roars began to sound.
Before he could think about it, the iron pipes on the ship made a violent sound again. Li Shimin saw a Yi Di pick up a cylinder and put it in front of his eyes. He was confused again and then remembered the telescope Chu Zhen gave him!
On the battlefields of later generations, telescopes were owned by both sides.
and!
On the sea, from huge ships, fireworks continued to erupt with roars, resounding throughout the world.
The battle became more fierce, flames shot into the sky, and a large ship sank like thunder. Debris flew everywhere, and the entire ship was reduced to nothing.
Li Shimin's heart was agitated, and he saw the soldiers on the city wall holding iron rods and firing at the city, followed by a chaotic charge. The soldiers rushed ashore, attacked the city, and shelled.
Fireworks were everywhere, soldiers were fighting hand to hand, powerful crossbows shot explosive arrows, and the city gate was opened in one fell swoop!
The two sides fought fiercely in the city.
He finally saw clearly that there was a group of barbarians from the Western Regions inside the city! !
Those who invaded the city were soldiers from the Central Plains Dynasty, the country ruled by the descendants of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty.
After the Yi Di surrendered in the Western Regions, the video also ended.
Li Shimin was still immersed in the battlefield scene just now, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
Chu Zhen looked at Miss Li and Sister Lin again. It was also their first time to watch the video, and it was their first time to have "close" contact with the battlefield. The two girls looked quite frightened, and they were both close to each other. Together.
Zhu Yuanzhang was silent with his hands behind his back, slightly raising his head to look at the frozen picture on the projector.
Chu Zhen waited for a while.
Play the video again, lower the sound, and ask Li Shimin with a smile:
"Erlang, what do you think?"
Li Shimin continued to look at the video screen and asked: "Is this iron pipe that can release fireworks a magical weapon on the battlefield in the future?"
"Yes, gunpowder appeared in the late Tang Dynasty, and firearms began to be commonly used in the Song Dynasty, called artillery. Gunpowder was put into a large iron can and detonated, causing a huge iron ball to be shot out, similar to a trebuchet.
During the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu and Chen Youliang fought at Poyang Lake and already used a large number of artillery to bombard each other. "
"Chen Youliang and I played on the lake for more than a month."
Zhu Yuanzhang said casually: "But there are no artillery shells on my ship that explode when they hit the ground... Do you have such artillery shells here?"
"I have one here, but the Ming Dynasty can't make one at the moment. They can only use match ropes for delayed detonation, which is similar to various types of firearms in the Song Dynasty. The video is wrong."
Grenade that can explode instantly after landing will not appear until much later.
The weapon that explodes when thrown has been around since the Song Dynasty, and it was used on the battlefield much earlier than in the West.
Watching the video, Li Shimin sighed: "If our Tang Dynasty had a hundred cannons like this, I could conquer Luoyang with an army of 30,000!"
"One hundred doors?" Chu Zhen looked at him with a smile.
"The walls of Luoyang are very strong, the foundation is ten feet thick, and there are many trebuchets."
Ten feet is thirty meters, and the city wall is probably more than ten meters thick. Chu Zhen thought about it and realized that the movie and TV series were fake. A hundred cannons were really not enough for such a thick city wall.
"What if the cannon could fire four miles away?"
Chu Zhen asked him again, and this time Zhu Yuanzhang also looked over.
"Four miles of land?!"
Li Shimin looked at him in astonishment, and after a long while, he said: "If we can fire a cannon four miles away, it will take ten cannons to fire for three or four days. The defenders in the city can only go out to fight. I don't know how often this cannon can be fired. Thirty thousand troops may not be enough.”
Instead, he was cautious and did not feel that he would win just because he saw the cannon.
After all, when the two armies engage in hand-to-hand combat, it still depends on the formation.
