[Wu Zetian] Queen's Road

Chapter 21 Second St. 10

After Liu Rengui set off, Cheng Mingzhen and Xue Rengui's army also set off from Silla County and Baekje County one after another, and joined forces with Liu Rengui's army on Tsushima Island.

In view of the fact that Mr. Cheng Mingzhen is not too young, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu ordered him to leave one-third of the soldiers and ships to guard Tsushima Island after he arrived at Tsushima Island, and hand over the remaining two-thirds of the warships to Liu Rengui's command.

After Liu Rengui took over Cheng Mingzhen's battleship, he quickly assembled and assembled, and headed towards the center of the Wa Kingdom. His mission was to take down the nearest country to the Omi Kingdom that could be landed. Liu Rengui acted cheaply, as long as he could win Omi in the end.

The task Xue Rengui received was relatively clear, and he had to take down the southern coastal country of the Wa Kingdom—Izumo Kingdom as quickly as possible. This task was obviously much more difficult than Liu Rengui's.

Liu Rengui obviously had some research on the several big countries of the Wa Kingdom. He knew that the people of the Izumo Kingdom claimed to be descendants of the Izumo God. The folk customs there were very tough, and there was also a wealth of iron tools. Even the Omi government was very troubled by it.It is not easy for Xue Rengui to take down Izumo quickly!

When the two set off from Tsushima Island to the north and arrived near the sea area of ​​Izumo, Liu Rengui specially gave Xue Rengui half of the secret weapon given to him by Tianhou's wife before, so that he could use it when necessary.

After that, Liu Rengui continued to go north, but he did not attack Tango, Wakasa, and Echizen, the three coastal countries adjacent to Omi, but took down the Kaga country to the north of Echizen with lightning speed.

At the same time, Xue Rengui, who landed in the Izumo country, received a fierce counterattack from the people of the Izumo country, and had to resort to secret weapons to flatten the Izumo city. a country.

"Why didn't Liu Rengui take Wakasa directly?" Wu Xu pointed at the sand table in front of him, very puzzled.

After receiving the news that Liu Rengui and Xue Rengui won the first battle, Jincheng also started the second round of strategic deployment.

Combat across the sea is not an easy task. His Majesty Li Xiaojiu spent nearly two years preparing just to prepare food and grass. As for the strategic plan, he also prepared N sets. He only needed to adjust and change according to the progress of the battle.

The current situation should be the best situation they could have imagined. King Ge Cheng is not in the center, and the various forces in the Wa Kingdom are fighting on their own, plus a mess of "young and young" and "starving famine". It will be slightly easier than taking Goguryeo.The only obstacle is probably the need to fight across the sea. Datang's warships are not many, even if they are all sent out, they will not be able to transport many soldiers and horses. If you want to completely kill the Wa Kingdom, you must use good tactics and it will take a long time .

Because of this, Wu Xu felt that quickly occupying the Omi Kingdom, breaking through the capital, and preferably killing King Ge Cheng to frighten the Wa Kingdom, was the top priority right now.

Liu Rengui's detour made her very confused.

But Li Zhi laughed, many times he always felt that his family Ah Wu was too domineering like a woman, and every time he deployed a strategy, he liked to hit the vital point directly.

But this time it was different from usual. After the first battle in Baijiang Village, Wa Kingdom tried to shrink its defense line. Kyushu, Tango, Wakasa, and Echizen seemed to be the easiest places for the Tang army to attack, but they all built solid defenses. It is impossible to take down the fortress quickly, and it will not achieve the effect of the "blitzkrieg" that Wu Xu said.Besides, although Wakasa Country is the closest landing point to Omi Country in terms of terrain, Wakasa Country is a concave harbor. If Liu Rengui attacks rashly, he will be surrounded by the other two countries, forming a situation of closing the door and beating dogs.Even if Datang could barely repel the Japanese soldiers and win Wakasa by relying on the high wall of his own ship, it would cause a lot of losses, so the experienced Liu Rengui directly bypassed the three countries and headed for the unsuspecting Kaga country.

Once the Kaga Kingdom was lost, all the northern countries of the Wa Kingdom became a mess, and everyone was in danger, not to mention that no "teacher of justice" dared to go south to serve the king.

And Kyushu in the south of the country of Wa was also hit hard after Liu Rengui took control of the north of the country of Wa.

Not long after Liu Rengui and Xue Rengui's army set off, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu ordered Sun Renshi, the general manager of Xiongjin Road, to lead the navy to wait for the opportunity to attack the southern fortress of the Wa Kingdom-Chikuzen Kingdom in Kyushu.

Sun Renshi is also an experienced veteran. He knew that Wa had set up at least four lines of defense in Kyushu to prevent the Tang Dynasty from attacking, so he did not rashly lead the navy to attack directly. The Nagato Kingdom in the northern part of the country feigned surrender...

Black Tooth Chang is brave and resourceful, and soon after arriving in the Nagato Kingdom, he won the favor of the Nagato Lord and was accepted as his confidant.

At this time, the news of the fall of the Izumo and Kaga countries spread to the south through the eyeliners of various countries, and everyone in the southern countries is also in danger...

The lord of the Chikuzen Kingdom suddenly discovered that there are always many ships appearing and disappearing in the waters near his territory recently. It is clear that the Tang people have come to investigate...

The lord of the Chikuzen Kingdom was so frightened that he immediately asked the lords of several neighboring countries for help.

The surrounding countries have no one to use, so they are not willing to help. Those who can't wipe out their friendship send a hundred old and weak soldiers to help. The other mediocre lords only care about strengthening their own cities.

On the contrary, the lord of the Nagato Kingdom knew a little bit about the truth, and immediately asked the black-toothed Changzhi who volunteered to bring more than 100 young men from the country to come to help...

As a result, it is conceivable that the lord of the Chikuzen Kingdom was tied into a rice dumpling when he wanted to sleep peacefully just because he had added a new force to his command...

Dazaifu changed ownership overnight. Chikuzen was originally a flat plain, and most of the people in the country were literati and businessmen. Except for Dazaifu's cobbled together soldiers and horses, they hardly had much combat effectiveness.

Therefore, once the Dazaifu was destroyed, the Japanese people of Chikuzen Kingdom had no mood to resist at all, and immediately surrendered to Master Sun Renshi.

In the next few days, Tang Jun took control of the counties under the Chikuzen Kingdom with little effort.

Once the Chikuzen Kingdom was lost, the Kyushu Island in the south of the Wa Kingdom was completely cut off from the Zhongzhou Island in the middle of the Wa Kingdom.

It was only a matter of time before Kyushu Island in the southern part of the country was sandwiched between Sun Renshi and Cheng Mingzhen, and it became Datang's pocket.

Compared with Sun Renshi and Cheng Mingzhen's step-by-step strategy, Liu Rengui fully demonstrated the strategy of "soldiers are precious and quick".

The coastal area of ​​Kaga is a sand dune area, and between the sand dune area and the Kaga Mountains in the southeast, there are many rivers such as the Daishoji River, the Tai River, the Tatori River, and the Sai River.From the southwest to the northeast is the belt-shaped Kaga Plain.It can be said that Kaga country is a land with complex landforms, many hills, many rivers and few plains. It is this special geography that makes Kaga country always regarded as a natural barrier in the northern part of Zhongzhou Island.Because of this, when King Gecheng was spending money and building a large number of military dams and fortresses in the central and southern coasts of Wa Kingdom, he did not set up Dazaifu in Kaga Kingdom.

But what King Ge Cheng never expected was that Liu Rengui would choose Kaga country to land, and led his troops lightly into battle, crossing the coastal sand dunes, bypassing the Kaga plain, and heading straight to Mino country, the military fortress in the northeast of Omi country.

When Omi was built as the capital of the Wa king, a pass was built on its east, west, and south sides, and the eastern pass was the Bupo pass that connected Mino.

Liu Rengui's goal is very clear, that is to take advantage of King Ge Cheng who attacked Yamato before returning to Omi, and not break through.

This task seems to be very difficult, but I don't know that God has always favored Liu Rengui, a blessed general.

Because the intelligence system of the Omi government was too backward, and the rapid fall of Kyushu, it was too late to spread the situation of the Tang army's advance to Omi. news!

On the contrary, King Ge Cheng, who was fighting with his younger brother in the Yamato Kingdom, suddenly received an urgent report from the Nagato Kingdom on the eve of the attack on Nara Castle. Only then did he know that Kyushu Island could no longer be contacted, and it was probably already under the control of the Tang army...

The news was like a thunderstorm from nine heavens, and King Ge Cheng was almost knocked out of his wits!

If it is an ordinary person, it is estimated that after getting this news, he would not care about abducting his concubine's younger brother. He must hurry up and return to the court to take charge of the overall situation, but King Ge Cheng is a generation of heroes. Knowing that Kyushu has been lost, Tang Jun's whereabouts are unknown Not only did they ignore the intelligence, but they ordered the storming of Nara Castle!

The Hairen prince in Nara city was already at the end of his battle, so he couldn't stand his brother's strong attack, and he was captured immediately.

Unexpectedly, after King Ge Cheng captured the Hairen prince and Uda Ji, not only did they not execute them, but forgave them for killing the general and eloping with Yamato.

The prince from Haihai probably also guessed that his brother would do this must be because of the Tang people's invasion, secretly rejoicing that he saved his life!

In order to reassure his elder brother, the prince of Hairen took the initiative to hand over all the military and political power of Yamato to his elder brother, and expressed his willingness to shave his head immediately and become a monk regardless of political affairs.

After King Gecheng took over Nara, he immediately sent a royal order to the Omi government, ordering the ministers of the court to escort the prince Otomo and move the capital to Nara immediately to avoid the next attack of the Tang army...

King Ge Cheng's order was originally foolproof, but he simply missed Liu Rengui, a surprise soldier who had already sneaked into the hinterland of the Japanese country.

It was such a coincidence that when the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Omi Government was escorting Prince Otomo from the east to the south without breaking through the pass, Liu Rengui's army descended from the sky, quickly knocked off those flashy guards, and sent all the grandchildren of the Japanese kingdom, including Prince Otomo, to the south. Nobles, harem beauties, and civil and military ministers were all arrested.

With so many heavyweight hostages in hand, the Jinjiang country and the three defending countries to the west were all taken down by Liu Rengui's soldiers without bloodshed if they dared to resist.

And King Ge Cheng, who was far away in Yamato Kingdom, waited for a long time for his beloved son and all the courtiers to arrive, and was about to send someone to Jinjiang to urge him again, but he didn't want to receive a letter of persuasion from Liu Rengui!The author has something to say: writing about wars is such a headache.two