Chapter 642 Liu Xiu and Li Shimin
"Zhang Hua has defeated the powerful Qin and captured all the Qin army in Longyou. He is recruiting soldiers and horses in various counties and counties. His plans are quite large."
Deng Yu, the Grand Tutor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, reported to Liu Xiu, who was exploring the overall situation, Zhang Hua's progress in Longyou.
Liu Xiu looked at the Han army and Tang army who were fighting fiercely, and his face became more and more serious.
The Han army fought hard for a long time and could not defeat Li Shimin's Tang army.
Liu Xiu swept Hebei, and there are only two strong enemies that are difficult to defeat. One is Zhang Hua, who occupies Guanzhong, and the other is Li Shimin who occupies Bingzhou.
Liu Xiu and Li Shimin attacked and defended each other for several months in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and surrendered many princes of Yanyun, but they were helpless to deal with each other.
The two have little difference in power, and neither can gain an advantage.
If the battle continues to fight to the death, one side will definitely not be able to hold on, and then the outcome will be decided.
However, in the world, not only the two princes, but also the other princes were eyeing each other.
"This guy Zhang Hua is really lucky. He found him the right opportunity to defeat Qiang Qin. He is still attacking Qidi. If he is allowed to completely annex the land of Qilu, I will no longer be his opponent by then..."
Liu Xiu's expression was unstable.
Previously, Liu Xiu had twice faced Zhang Hua, but both of them had no choice but to deal with Zhang Hua. Their national strength and luck were similar.
However, as Zhang Hua's power expanded, Liu Xiu and Li Shimin were in a stalemate in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and Liu Xiu's military strength was no longer as strong as Zhang Hua.
Liu Xiu didn't know whether it was correct to marry his sister Princess Ning Ping to Zhang Hua.
"The battle in Youzhou City, with millions of corpses and thousands of blood bleeds. It's time to make a break with Li Shimin."
"Ming Jin withdraws his troops!"
Liu Xiu began to shrink his troops and retreated to the south of Youzhou City, while Li Shimin's Tang army also retreated to the north of Youzhou City like a tide.
Two powerful armies from the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty have been fighting like this for more than a month, and there have been constant battles of all sizes.
"I almost died at the hands of the Xuanjia Army!"
Cao Cao returned to the camp with the remaining tiger and leopard cavalry and took off his blood-stained helmet, feeling lingering fear.
Just now, when the Han army and the Tang army were fighting fiercely, Cao Cao took eight thousand tiger and leopard cavalry and wanted to win an epic victory, but was personally led by Li Shimin to thrust the Xuanjia Army. The tiger and leopard cavalry suffered heavy losses. Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Chun, Cao Xiu and other military generals were all injured.
There was an arrow hanging on Cao Cao's body. This was the arrow that Li Shimin shot Cao Cao in the melee, hitting Cao Cao's buttocks, almost killing Cao Cao.
The bloody Yuan Shao also returned to the camp, Yan Liang was slightly injured and Wen Chou was seriously injured.
Yuan Shao's face looked quite ugly.
The powerful generals under his command, Wen Chou and Yan Liang, were defeated by Gao Siji, the white horse, silver spear, and Gao Xingzhou and his son.
Yuan Shao's advisers Ju Su and Tian Feng also found it difficult to plot against Li Shimin's advisers Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui.
Li Shimin was called Tiankang. His Tang army also absorbed many Xianbei, Turkic, and Goryeo, who were extremely fierce.
However, Yuan Shao was immediately happy when he saw Cao Cao being shot in the buttocks by Li Shimin. He swept away the previous haze and mocked Cao Cao: "Cao Aman, Cao Aman, your tiger and leopard cavalry claims to be a tiger in the world, why is it so unbearable?"
Cao Cao said angrily: "Hmph, you might as well take your elves to fight against Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army. If you can survive, I can recognize you as your adopted father!"
Father and son bureau?
At that moment, Yuan Shao was quite moved by Cao Cao's proposal.
But Yuan Shao thought about it carefully and even Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry was almost destroyed by Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army, and Yuan Shao's elliptical soldiers really couldn't stop the Xuanjia Army.
The cavalry that the elliptical can compete with is Gongsun Zan's white horse righteousness.
"You two, stop quarrel."
When Liu Xiu saw that Yuan Shao, who was named General by him and Cao Cao, who was appointed as General of the Cavalry, quarreled again, so he stopped the two of them.
Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu spoke, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao finally calmed down.
Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were all waiting for Liu Xiu's orders.
Liu Xiumingjin withdrew his troops and summoned the two again. I guess Liu Xiu had something to say.
Some of the Yanyun princes who were dependent on Liu Xiu were also summoned by Liu Xiu to discuss matters.
"I plan to cease war with Li Shimin."
Liu Xiu glanced at these ambitious subordinates and told his decision.
"Your Majesty, we have invested a lot of manpower and material resources to defeat Li Shimin and completely take over the Sixteen State of Yanyun. Now we are giving up halfway. What's going on?"
"Your Majesty, please order the attack to continue. In less than a month, we will definitely win!"
"We have defected to Your Majesty, and half of the princes in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun support Your Majesty. Your Majesty must not give up!"
After Liu Xiu announced his truce to truce, the princes who were dependent on Liu Xiu's forces talked a lot and talked, and still advocated continuing to fight.
They have already invested too many troops in the Youzhou City Battle, with countless casualties. If the battle is in a standstill and the outcome cannot be decided, then wouldn’t the troops consumed before be wasted?
Gu Feng
During the Jieting Battle, Zhang Hua also lost hundreds of thousands of people, but he insisted on fighting until the Qin State collapsed and then won.
Liu Xiu said: "Zhang Hua has conquered Qin and issued a mobilization order for the world to prepare for the troops and shift the focus to Guandong. We will continue to fight with Li Shimin, both sides will be injured. At that time, Zhang Hua will appoint a general and command 600,000 troops to capture the land north of the Yellow River."
"What?! As powerful as the Qin army, it was actually defeated!"
"If Zhang Hua annexed Liangzhou, then he would be the first-class prince in the world, including Sili, Liangzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou and other places!"
"Our Jizhou is in danger!"
These princes were in an uproar again.
They finally knew why Liu Xiu urgently summoned them to come and announced the decision to cease war with Li Shimin.
Zhang Hua has now become a great prince at the level of the Great Demon King. All the heroes of Kanto are afraid and everyone is in danger. Liu Xiu dared not let go of his hands and feet and continued to fight Li Shimin to death.
If we continue to fight, it is equivalent to Wei State watching the Battle of Yiling between Shu State and Wu State.
"Zhonghua, you will go to the Tang army camp and meet Li Shimin. I will discuss with him the demarcation of the border with the two armies tomorrow."
"Here."
Deng Yu, the Grand Tutor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was ordered to go to the camp of Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, and requested a ceasefire from Li Shimin.
Li Shimin also learned that Zhang Hua had conquered Qin and urgently discussed with Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and other advisers, and finally decided to agree to Liu Xiu's request for a ceasefire.
Li Shimin's territory borders Zhang Hua.
Li Cunxu, a prince who was attached to Li Shimin, occupied half of Hedong and confronted Xie Xuan. After Xie Xuan's Northern Palace Army was transferred to Nanyang County, it was changed to the Wei Wuzun Army, the sub-saint Wuqi, and the Wei Wuzun Army, who was the Xinling Jun Wei Wuji, and replaced the Northern Palace Army to garrison Yubi City in Hedong.
Li Cunxu's pressure doubled and he has also in a hurry to Li Shimin.
So, the next day, Liu Xiu and Li Shimin met in front of the two armies like unprecedented.
One is the great magician Liu Xiu, and the other is Tian Khan Li Shimin. Both are emperors who are good at using troops. In their respective eras, it is difficult to find opponents, so they can break an era!
Behind Liu Xiu, Jia Fu, Giant, Geng Yan, Qing Qi, Dian Wei, Yan Liang and other powerful generals lined up in a row, showing off their power.
Behind Li Shimin, the powerful generals such as Li Cunxiao, Gao Siji, Yuchi Jingde, and Xue Wanche were in line up, with their momentum as powerful generals of the Han army.
Flying Tiger General Li Cunxiao only obeyed Li Shimin's orders, and even Li Cunxiao's adoptive father Li Keyong was not qualified to point fingers at Li Cunxiao.
The Han army and the Tang army competed against each other.
The Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty were both powerful and martial dynasties, and they often attacked Central Asia.
The two powerful troops fought in Youzhou City, and neither of them conquered each other.
Two emperors, who had been apart for six hundred years, met and discussed the division of the sixteen states of Yanyun and the demarcation of boundaries.
"The sixteen states in Yanyun are the most important, and one Youzhou City is worth three states."
"I will take Youzhou, Yingzhou, Mozhou, Zhuozhou, Shunzhou, Tanzhou, Shunzhou, Shunzhou, and Shunzhou. All the other nine states belong to you. As for the princes of Yanyun, depending on their respective choices, how do you do?"
In order to win the most important Youzhou City, Liu Xiu just walked to the seven states near his territory and divided the nine states to Li Shimin.
After Li Shimin thought for a while, Liu Xiu's proposal was reasonable.
The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are just an ancient geographical concept. The specific classification varies from person to person.
Liu Xiu wanted to go to the seven states closest to him, and the other nine states were close to Li Shimin's territory, so he gave Li Shimin.
Li Shimin and Liu Xiu did not have any irreconcilable grudges, but just fought for the land and population of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.
After the border was divided, the two sides had the basis for a truce.
Li Shimin and Liu Xiu looked at each other and knew that the other party was too shocked because the news of Zhang Hua's conquering Qin State was too shocking, so they pushed the two to cease the war.
If there was no threat from Zhang Hua in the south, Li Shimin and Liu Xiu might have fought until the sky is dark and the outcome is decided.
"I didn't expect that the two of us were fighting for Youzhou, but instead gave Zhang Hua the opportunity to dispatch troops and capture Liangzhou. I made a mistake. At the beginning, I should have personally led the main force, conquered Hedong, and then directly defeated Guanzhong."
Li Shimin sighed.
He and Tang Army military advisor Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui formulated the strategy of taking Yanyun first, then Hebei, and then going south to the Central Plains. There was actually no problem. Unfortunately, Liu Xiu and Li Shimin's strategy were similar, so the two of them were stalemate in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which instead created an excellent opportunity for Zhang Hua to attack Qin.
Liu Xiu sighed, "Oh, why am I not the same?"
At this moment, the two of them felt a sense of mutual appreciation.
The snipe and the clam fight, and the fisherman gains profit.
After fighting for so long, each of them got half of Yanyun, and Zhang Hua not only got the entire Liangzhou, but also eroded Qingzhou.
They lost too much.
The princes of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, Liu Rengong, the governor of Lulong, Ji Zhi of Yan Zhao, Zhu Di, the ancestor of Ming Chengzu, and others were all watching. Liu Xiu and Li Shimin's troops were much stronger than theirs. Since the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were divided up by two overlord emperors, they could only choose to stand...
"The two overlords' ceasefire may be just the peace before the storm..."
Chapter completed!