#History#Due to the misdeeds of the old fourth Li Yuanji in Taiyuan City, Taiyuan City was attacked by Liu Wuzhou, and the loss of Taiyuan can be said to be a heavy blow to The Tang.
At this time, Li Shimin wrote to Li Yuan to lead an army to retake Taiyuan. Although the fourth elder Li Yuanji was a clumsy disciple, the second eldest Li Shimin was an authentic fierce man, and Li Yuan could still trust li yuan in terms of the ability to cut people in battle.
Therefore, this time Li Yuan handed over to Li Shimin a total of 30,000 troops that could be gathered in the Guanzhong area, and if Li Shimin still lost this time, then Datang could only stick to Guanzhong and could no longer go east.
In the winter of wude's second year, the Yellow River had frozen, and Li Shimin led his troops across the ice to the Hedong area. Moreover, the situation that Li Shimin faced this time was much more complicated than the situation faced by Xue Rengao last time.
First of all, the Tang army fell into a passive situation, and when the plaintiff was in a hurry, Li Yuan had sent reinforcements four times in succession, but the result was either the total annihilation of the army or the capture of the lord, the reason was that Liu Wuzhou's strategy was to attack from all sides, besiege the city to provide reinforcements, and focus on attacking The Tang reinforcements.
And Datang completely fell into the trap of the enemy, every time Liu Wuzhou's troops hit, Datang's reinforcements were saved, it was completely led by the enemy's nose.
Datang's army fell into a situation of passive rescue, and never thought of taking the initiative to attack, to contain Liu Wuzhou's energy for attack, so that Liu Wuzhou could fight wherever he wanted very calmly.
Worse than falling into a passive situation, the Tang lost the hearts of the people in the Hedong region, and after Liu Wuzhou captured Taiyuan, he immediately launched an attack on other cities in Shanxi, in order to delay Liu Wuzhou's offensive, Pei Huan could only adopt the strategy of clearing the wilderness, moving the people into the castle and burning up the grain crops.
For the common people, they may not care much about who wins or loses the war, but food is their only property, which directly causes the dissatisfaction of the local people and even triggers a popular uprising.
In the face of all the above situations, Li Shimin began to show his strong trading ability to save the situation.
Li Shimin first did to appease the people's hearts, after all, water can carry a boat and can overturn the truth, he understands better than anyone. So he issued a decree, and then sent emissaries around to give him instructions.
Fortunately, the Li family has been operating in Shanxi for many years, and coupled with the reputation of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, the local people's hearts have gradually been appeased.
Subsequently, Li Shimin led his troops to garrison Baibi, in front of Baibi, lined with Jiwang Mountain, back to the safety and convenience of The Flood Water, there was no problem, in the face of the challenge of Song Jingang, Li Shimin insisted on not giving the enemy the opportunity to take advantage of the victory to pursue. However, if you want to turn passive into active, the most important thing is to fight a few battles to win.
Just as Chi Jingde, a subordinate of Song Jingang, escorted a group of prisoners of war back to Xunzhou, Li Shimin sent Yin Kaishan and Qin Qiong to set up an ambush on the Meiyi River on their way back, killing more than 2,000 enemies, and this was also the first time that the two door gods Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde fought.
Immediately after that, Li Shimin once again set up an ambush at An Yi and killed Wei Chi Jingde's troops, except for Wei Chi Jingde, who was spared the entire army.
It should be known that these two battles were rare victories of the Tang army against Liu Wuzhou's army in the near future, which greatly boosted the morale of the Tang army. plum
Shimin's subordinates believed that they should take this opportunity to find an opportunity to fight against Song Jingang. At this time, Li Shimin showed maturity that did not match his age (Li Shimin was 21 years old at this time).
Li Shimin believed that although two victories had been achieved recently, they had only hit the morale of the enemy and curbed the offensive momentum of the other side, and the main force of Song Jingang was still there.
Secondly, Song Jingang's lone army went deep into the supply line too long, and the supply even had to be robbed for a living, and the more the military food was urgent, the more Song Jingang was eager to fight, if at this time the battle was obviously in the arms of the other side.
When the history books write about the Battle of Baibi, it is written that Li Shimin fought with Song Jingang to consume more of his own grain, until Song Jingang ran out of grain, and then pursued a battle to determine victory or defeat.
You must know that Li Shimin and Song Jingang have been confronted for nearly half a year, is it true that Li Shimin has waited for nothing in the past six months? In fact, the Battle of Baibi not only reflected Li Shimin's military ability, but also reflected his political ability.
One of the things Li Shimin did in the past six months was to rebuild Datang's local administrative system, and the purpose of rebuilding the administrative system was to collect grain.
Many people write that when Li Shimin fights, he always likes to say that Li Shimin has more grain than others, so he can fight with the enemy to consume, but he never thinks about why Li Shimin can have more than others.
Li Shimin can collect grain at the local grassroots level by rebuilding the administrative system, coupled with the action of appeasing the people in the early stage, the people have called out the grain stored in their own homes, knowing that if the grain of the local people is given to Li Shimin, then the grain supply of Song Jingang will be even more embarrassing.
In this way, Li Shimin continued to encroach on the local living space of Song Jingang through the reconstruction of the administrative system, coupled with the victory of other Tang troops in the Battlefield of Shanxi, and by the beginning of April of the third year of Wude, Song Jingang finally began to retreat due to the lack of grain, and the fighter plane that Li Shimin was waiting for arrived.
Then the famous Li Shimin led the army to pursue all the way, and did not disarm for three days. In this battle, Li Shimin lost himself to the extent that Liu Hongji pulled Li Shimin's mount and asked him to rest first before pursuing. Li Shimin's answer was that now that Song Jingang was poor in skill and the military was scattered, he should make a big fuss and not give others a chance to breathe.
To be honest, fighting this battle is purely a contest of willpower. After all, Tang Jun was tired now, and Song Jingang was definitely not much better, gritting his teeth and pointing to the opposite side, he would collapse first.
Li Shimin's words have all been said on this, and Liu Hongji is not good at saying anything? After all, the leaders are all in the lead, and there are those who do not follow as subordinates. In the end, he caught up with Song Jingang's main force in the Squirrel Valley, fought eight times a night, and completely defeated Song Jingang's main force.
This is a typical victory of Li Shimin's military style, patience + decisiveness + extermination, and if you don't shoot, you will kill your opponent.
Finally, talking about the ending, Liu Wu in Taiyuan heard that Song Jingang was defeated on Monday, and he gave up Taiyuan in fright and ran to the Turks. Song Jingang originally wanted to fight again with his whole army, but no one obeyed his orders, so he could only defect to the Turks.
For Li Shimin, not only did he subdue the whole of Shanxi, but his personal prestige was raised to a higher level, but he also subdued a fierce general, Wei Chi Jingde, who was loyal to Li Shimin all his life, and Li Shimin also relied on Wei Chi Jingde all his life.