Chapter 53 Chapter Fifty-Third: Li Shimin Breaks the Dike and Breaks the Enemy's Battlefield

On February 29th, when it was sunny, Li Shimin took Mingshui City. Liu Heitai occupied the city for three days before being driven away by Li Shimin.When Liu Heita left, he could still be caught; when Luo Shixin left, he really left.Liu Heita, who was broken by Li Shimin, immediately retreated for dozens of miles. At this time, the army must press on every step, not giving the opponent any chance to breathe.Li Shimin shook his head and said, "No, Liu Heita only suffered a little skin injury, and chasing him too fast now will definitely cause heavy losses." Although Li Shimin, who lost his beloved general, was angry, he was still sober.He would not have risked the lives of so many soldiers in vain when no great sacrifice was necessary.An excellent military strategist is not only a great liar, but also a shrewd businessman; an actor with delicate emotions, and a model of non-toxic and husband.Liu Heitai knew Li Shimin's characteristics. Apart from being good at capturing information, this guy seemed to have no other tricks.Liu Heitai also expected that Li Shimin just wanted to wait until he had no food after eating the food and was desperate, so he would be hungry and launch the final attack?

OK, I'm not fooling you. Therefore, Liu Heikai transported grain from Jizhou, Beizhou, Cangzhou, and Yingzhou to Mingzhou by water and land.The mighty grain ships and grain trucks were coming from the four states to Mingzhou. In the era without trucks, ox carts and large ships were the most effective.This waterway and land route were determined by Liu Heitai after careful consideration. When they confronted each other, Li Shimin sent someone to block Liu Heitai's food road.But the sky is big and the earth is big, even if you block it, you can still find loopholes no matter what!Many of the food that Liu Heitai transported before were robbed or burned by Li Shimin. This time, old Liu learned a lesson.

How to transport grain to reduce losses?This is actually a very interesting math problem. Question: Those who stand guard at the school gate like to sleep, sleep very hard in the middle, but wake up from time to time every one to two minutes to check the school gate, the time is two seconds, and then go back to sleep.We collectively skip class and go out to play. There are more than a hundred people. Should ten people run out ten times, or should a hundred people go out together? The answer is that if a hundred people run out together, the chance of being caught is the smallest. Liu Heitai gathered all the grain and grass from the four states, moved by land and water, and picked a road to send it to the barracks.If you don't catch up with Li Shimin's patrolling soldiers, the food and grass will be successfully transported - anyway, Li Shimin is not a god, there is always a checkpoint that is not blocked.It's a pity that Li Shimin is not a sleepy gatekeeper, but a human emperor who sees all directions and listens to all directions.After receiving the information, Li Shimin calmly sent someone to rob the food, and Xuanjia robbed the army food, the consequences can be imagined.Liu Heitai's grain truck and boat were burned down, and now Li Shimin was able to play that rotten trick again.

Liu Heitai was furious and vowed to destroy Li Shimin, but Cheng Mingzhen, who was in charge of beating drums and robbing food, was the first to suffer.Cheng Mingzhen is Dou Jiande's old department, but now, everyone is their own master.Liu Heitai was very familiar with Cheng Mingzhen, he took away his mother and wife and tore them up to vent his resentment.At this time, Li Shimin was basking in the sun. Li Shimin looked at the calendar and calculated the day when Liu Heita would be hungry.Liu Heitai knew that Li Shimin wanted to use the old trick of running out of ammunition and food, so he sent people to Mingshui to challenge him many times while there was food and food.Li Shimin was a grandson when he was supposed to be a grandson. At this time, he was more like a tortoise holding on.Liu Heitai went crazy, you refused to move, but I can make you move.The army of the Tang Dynasty stationed troops on the north and south banks of Mingshui. Liu Heita had to find a way to kill Li Shimin's best general.

who? Li Shiji. Well, just hit him.No effect during the day, go at night.After thinking about this, Liu Heita sent a large group of troops to Li Shiji's barracks at night.There is no specific number of troops led by Liu Heitai, but in terms of strength, it will definitely not be less than 10,000.Li Shiji's number was relatively small, but Liu Heitai's attack was too fierce. Soon, Li Shiji's army seemed exhausted.When Li Shimin learned that Liu Heitai attacked the camp at night and led his troops to rescue him, Li Shiji almost collapsed. Due to the urgency of the matter, Li Shimin's team is obviously not as large as Liu Heitao's, but he is a smart man.He wisely chose to stab Liu Heitai in the back. Unlike other troops, and to Li Shimin's surprise, Liu Heitai's army turned around very well.The rear team becomes the front team, and it takes shape immediately, and it changes in the blink of an eye.The army quickly surrounded Li Shimin, and this was a good time. Li Shimin was originally trying to save Li Shiji, but he was self-defeating and fell into a predicament.Li Shimin has experienced many such scenes, so he is not afraid.

Not being afraid of death doesn't mean you won't die. Liu Heita wanted his life this time! Li Shimin needs a strong man like Luo Shixin who can mess up tens of thousands of troops with one or two hundred people, who?No one said anything.At another moment, a handsome black man with a loud voice appeared, Yuchi Jingde.Hei, can you do it?Whether Old Hei can do it depends on how murderous he is.Judging from the current situation, Yuchi Jingde was chopping vegetables.After knocking down a few, Da Lao Hei shouted angrily, and shouted at the enemy soldiers who came up: "Who dares to stop me?" He said, leading a group of black armor daredevil warriors to clear the way from left to right, and killed Liu Hei. In the belly of the water bucket array.

Li Shimin led the elite soldiers to take the opportunity to rush back to the camp. To sum up this battle, Liu Heitai fought Li Shiji first, without gaining much credit, and then he beat Li Shimin, without gaining much credit, and when he wanted to fight something else, Li Shimin was ready again and couldn't hold out.Things have fallen into a mess again. Who can blame when this happens?The two sides returned to camp and continued to wait for the critical outbreak.An obvious fact tells Li Shimin that the last moment is not far away. Liu Heita ran out of food. Constant food will not be so urgent.

No one knows whether Lao Liu has run out of food or not, this is what Li Shimin said.He said, wait and see, Liu Heitai will come to challenge again in a few days, and at that time, we must follow our plan-this is an extremely insidious plan.Sure enough, three days later, Liu Heita crossed Mingshui with 20,000 cavalry and infantry, suppressed the Tang army, and marched out. The two armies confront each other, and the battle is imminent.The difference is that this time it was Li Shimin who took the lead in fighting. He led the Xuanjia army into Liu Heita's camp and carried out a massacre.Liu Heita's cavalry had never seen such an iron-fortified team, and the extremely poorly equipped cavalry of the Eastern King of Han were easily dispersed by the Tang army.The cavalry was dispersed, and it was time for the well-trained infantry.However, using Liu Heitai's infantry against Li Shimin's cavalry is equivalent to wild wolves against tanks. Although Liu Heitai's infantry is very powerful, their arms cannot twist their thighs no matter what.

God made a super joke on Liu Heitai. Liu Heitai's infantry saw thousands of Xuanjia soldiers riding tall horses slashing at him with spears and knives, but they did not run away. Liu Heitai led the cavalry and killed them back again.From noon to evening, for several rounds, the two sides refused to give in to each other, and it was impossible to see who had the advantage.One is the well-known Xuanjia Army, and the other is the well-known Rebel Army. It was only at night that the peasant army showed a posture of being unable to hold on. Liu Heitai fled. Liu Heitai cheated people, and the soldiers under him were tricked hard by him, and Li Shimin was tricked even more.The thing is like this, one of Liu Heitai's subordinates is Wang Xiaohu, who saw that the Eastern Han Army could not hold on, so he said to Liu Heitai: "It's not enough, teacher, let's escape early!" Liu Heikai nodded immediately when he saw the next round of attack from the Xuanjia army, and ran away with two hundred cavalry.The Central Plains could not tolerate him, so he fled to Turkic.But Lao Liu's soldiers didn't know that Lao Liu had escaped, and they fought desperately. At the moment when they were about to exhaust themselves, something happened that made them extremely happy.

Li Shimin's army stopped for a while and retreated. A devastating disaster is coming quietly... It was quiet, when suddenly, a three-meter-high water wall surged from the direction of the Mingshui Dam. Before they could figure out what was going on, the rebel army was already submerged in the flood.Li Shimin, who retreated tens of miles away, smiled, and the plan was going perfectly, which did not surprise him at all.He killed more than 10,000 people and drowned more than 8,000 people in this gang of rebels, leaving almost no survivors.Li Shimin is a man with a plan. Long before the start of the war, he was optimistic about the geographical situation near Mingshui.The two armies chose the low-lying area for the battle, which happened to be Li Shimin's trap.

Before the war started, Li Shimin approached the officials at the Mingshui Dam and said, when our army retreats, you will dig the dam.The matter was as simple as that, among the 8,000 people who drowned, some couldn't tell the difference between the corrupt officials and the Xuanjia army until their death.But no matter what, Li Shimin accomplished the task assigned by his father brilliantly, and the most disturbing Liu Heitai was finished.In my opinion, the most unkind thing about Liu Heitai is that he didn't tell everyone to run together.However, according to my estimation, even if everyone ran together, the dam would be dug up after the Tang army retreated, and at most Liu Heitai would drown with everyone. On behalf of me and myself, I express my great helplessness about the whole thing. Xu Yuanlang also made a move. He heard that Liu Heita was defeated, and he was very afraid that Li Shimin would kill him again.So I waited for Tang Jun to come in Hebei, feeling uneasy.However, his worries are unnecessary.At the most critical moment, Li Yuan helped him, and Li Yuan left alone to fight Xu Yuanlang.This person is Qi Wang Li Yuanji.To see clearly, it was Li Yuanji, and Li Yuanji was alone (with soldiers under him).Li Yuan recalled Li Shimin to the court, and he needed Li Shimin for something.This time, Comrade Li Yuanji lit up.Thanks to the efforts of Comrade Li Yuanji, Xu Yuanlang survived the catastrophe. Even Xu Yuanlang couldn't do it, Li Yuanji humiliated Li Yuan.After Li Shimin discussed some matters with his father, Li Yuan felt that it was difficult for Li Yuanji to accomplish anything, so he asked Li Shimin to come and let them suppress the bandits together.When he arrived at the barracks, Li Shimin wanted to stimulate Li Yuanji first.He told Li Yuanji one thing that made him extremely depressed: "I came back to Beijing to discuss the official position with my father. Du Fuwei from Jianghuai ranks above you. This is our father's ranking." Du Fuwei?Li Yuanji's eyes were as big as bells.Li Shimin nodded.Li Yuanji was sad. He was Li Yuan's youngest son, the prince, but his treatment was not as good as that of a mountain king who had just surrendered. It was really sad.Du Fuwei was born as a typical poor peasant, and he has made many great achievements in his life.The smartest thing about him is that he can see current events clearly and surrender to the Tang Dynasty.Therefore, Li Yuan made him the post of Prince Taibao, ranking above Li Yuanji.There is a reason why Du Fuwei's status is so high. Du Fuwei was born in Zhangqiu, Qizhou (now Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province), and was one year older than Li Shimin.Du Fuwei's operations in southern Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places have a great momentum.Due to the strict management of the army, clear rewards and punishments, heavy use of scholars, severe punishment of corrupt officials, strict laws, and good treatment of the people, Du Fuwei was praised by everyone.Now that such a wise emperor surrendered, Li Yuan was naturally very happy.Li Yuanji was not happy, Li Yuanji was born by his own father (nonsense), he couldn't figure out why his father was so polite to outsiders.Just when he was extremely depressed, Comrade Li Yuan suddenly ordered that King Qi no longer had to fight Xu Yuanlang to the death, and let King Qin handle it by himself.Li Yuanji became more and more sad. He touched his big gun, hated that there was nowhere to spread his blood for serving the country, sighed, and returned to court. Li Yuanji is useless, but Li Jiancheng is useful. At this time, Jieli led an army of 150,000 to the vicinity of Yanmen, with the purpose of robbing.Robbery is not fighting, just run away after the robbery, without any burden.Jieli has a thick skin. After returning to the nest, he sent the repaired documents. After fooling Li Yuan, he led the army to rob things later, and then sent the books to be repaired.Li Yuan just wanted to scold his mother, he couldn't bear Xieli's useless attitude anymore.So, he called a group of ministers to discuss the matter, and said: "Should I pay them every year to fix it? Or should I give them face and fight now?" At this time, Feng Deyi stood up and said: "If we show weakness and ask for peace, he will have to grab things again next year. If we fight, he will be honest." Li Yuan nodded in agreement, thinking that Comrade Feng Deyi would grasp the leader's heart very well.In fact, Feng Deyi's thinking angle has always been from himself. If the matter has nothing to do with him, he will say what he thinks. If it has something to do with him, he will say what is good for him.Turks have nothing to do with Lao Feng, so Lao Feng wants to follow Li Yuan's meaning.Since you want to fight the Turks, you have to let Li Jiancheng fight. Li Jiancheng was very useful and won all the battles. Li Jiancheng beat Turks, Li Shimin beat Xu Yuanlang, Li Yuanji couldn't sit still. He wanted to beat Liu Heizhen. Question: Halo, didn't Liu Heita run away? A: Yes, it's back now. Liu Heikai fled to Turkic from the flood and beast, and returned to the Central Plains from Turkic a few days later.As soon as he appeared, the people in Hebei and Shandong immediately thought of Dou Jiande, king of Xia, and responded one after another. Within a few days, Liu Heitai took over all the old land.In an instant, tens of thousands of people came to join Liu Heitai, and Liu Heitai became the most troublesome word for Li Yuan again. On the first day of October in the fifth year of Wude, Li Yuanji was appointed as the leading general and the general manager of Bingzhou, dedicated to quelling Liu Heita's rebellion. Thanks Li Yuanji.Under the leadership of Li Yuanji, Xu Shanhu, the governor of Beizhou, attacked Liu Heita, and the whole army was wiped out.The battles in other places were won and lost, and the Tang army was very embarrassed.Li Yuan originally hoped to let Li Yuanji beat the most trashy troops, but unexpectedly Dou Jiande and the rest of the rest of the rest of the rest of the rest of the crowd could kill King Qi to death.So, all in all, it's better not to let Li Yuanji beat him up, what should he do, he can follow behind the second child as a younger brother. Therefore, on October 16th, Li Shimin led the army of twelve left and right guards, and Li Yuanji followed. The next day, Li Shimin ordered Li Daoxuan to fight Qingqi, and Shi Wanbao was in charge of supporting him.Li Daoxuan, the boy who was shot like a hedgehog, a modest gentleman, a hero on the battlefield.Shi Wanbao, the chief of some state, the old man who sent himself to the west, is still a narrow-minded person. When a real hero encounters a small-minded person, he can really suffocate people to death. Li Yuanji: Do you like my angel face, or my devil figure? Liu Heita: I just like your sense of humor.