Turbulent Times Chapter 1636: Yangzhou in March in Yangchun
Li Shimin didn't know that Hou Junji was dead.
Unexpectedly, after inspecting the city wall and the camp at night, Li Shimin, who was about to rest, suddenly received a report from his own soldiers, saying that someone had attacked the Far Eastern Army camp outside the city at night.
Li Shimin's expression darkened immediately, and he quickly ran to the top of the city.
Looking around, the Far Eastern Army's camp in the distance outside the city is indeed in full swing, and the flames are so bright that it looks chaotic. At first glance, the person who stole the camp seems to have succeeded.
However, when Li Shimin witnessed this scene, especially after looking at it carefully, his heart sank, and he couldn't help cursing: "It's okay for that idiot Yuan Ji to do such a stupid thing. Hou Junji will not stop him at all. Damn it."
At this time, a general came to ask for a fight: "Second son, I am willing to lead 10,000 cavalry out of the city to cooperate with the reinforcements to attack the camp."
Li Shimin hesitated for a while, shook his head and said, "Look first, don't rush out of the city."
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At this time, the Far East Army camp looked chaotic from a distance, but in fact, under Xu Shiji's control, the chaos was orderly.
The Wagang Battalion was originally an elite team, and both generals and ordinary soldiers had a lot of experience in facing such situations. In addition, after more than half a year of training in the Snake Island model, Xu Shiji didn't even need to say anything at this time. What, or make some instructions, everyone will make the right response in the first time.
What's more, the Wagang camp already knew that there would be an enemy attacking the camp tonight. If it wasn't for a show to see if they could lure out the defenders in Hanzhong County, they would have already killed the Li family army who attacked at night. crushed.
So, from the beginning to the end, Xu Shiji didn't take much care of Li Yuanji and his party who personally led 20,000 cavalry to attack the battalion, but kept staring at Hanzhong City with binoculars from the watchtower.
The two cavalry behind the hills on both sides of the camp have not dispatched, quietly waiting for the defenders of Hanzhong City to come out to meet Li Yuanji and his party to steal the camp.
Unfortunately, Li Shimin didn't know whether he had seen through the conspiracy plan of the Far East Army, or out of caution, he never sent a large army to respond.
Seeing that this scene could no longer be performed, Xu Shiji immediately ordered: "Order the cavalry behind the hillsides on both sides to take the enemy's retreat, the infantry surrounded on three sides, and the archers waited for the opportunity to shoot and kill the enemy. Drive towards Hanzhong County, I don't believe that Li Shimin won't let their people enter the city, after all, he still has his own brother..."
Full of confidence, Li Yuanji led 20,000 fine riders to attack the battalion. At first, it seemed that he was caught by surprise, and successfully broke through the front battalion of the Wagang camp, and rushed all the way to the location of the Chinese army.
But that's all. Everything that followed seemed like a dream. The response speed of the Wagang Camp far exceeded Li Yuanji's expectations.
He led 20,000 cavalry just to break through the last line of resistance in the front battalion. First, he stepped on a landmine and killed one or two thousand people, not to mention that their charge was completely shattered.
Immediately afterwards, they were entangled by the cavalry of the Wagang Battalion who suddenly appeared from nowhere, and then they were firmly blocked by the continuous infantry.
Seeing that he and his party had been encircled and were about to die here, Li Yuanji suddenly found a gap and led his men to rush out of the encirclement, only to find that Hanzhong City was right in front of them.
Although Li Yuanji doesn't want to see Li Shimin under such circumstances, there is no one except Hanzhong City
In addition, they had no way to escape, so they had to lead the four or five thousand cavalry who were still alive to rush towards Hanzhong City.
However, there were tens of thousands of cavalrymen from the Wagang battalion who clung to Li Yuanji and his party, chasing and killing them all the way. In such a short period of time, the Wagang battalion organized more than 2,000 cavalrymen to go around to Hanzhong City. ahead, blocking their way.
This is a temporary order from Xu Shiji just now. He wanted to let Li Shimin see his younger brother Li Yuanji surrounded by a place closer to Hanzhong City, and force Li Shimin to send troops out of the city to respond.
Li Yuanji was indeed a master of martial arts, his eyes were red, he roared again and again, and swung his knife at a Wagang camp soldier blocking the way. With a "poof", the head was raised. A cavity of blood sprayed out two feet high.
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"Second Young Master, Third Young Master is inside, send troops to meet them!" On the head of Hanzhong City, a general knelt down and begged Li Shimin for orders.
Li Shimin's face was extremely gloomy, but he still refused to order to open the city gate and send troops to respond.
Changsun Wuji couldn't help but whispered: "Shimin, if Yuan Ji dies outside the city, and you don't send troops to rescue him, His Royal Highness Tang will not be able to explain it afterwards."
Li Shimin's expression became stern, and he said: "If I guessed correctly, Xu Shiji is waiting for us to open the city gate. I even have a premonition that as long as the city gate is opened and troops are sent to respond, Hanzhong City will be destroyed today." It was broken, although I don't know the specific reason."
Changsun Wuji's face changed slightly when he heard the words. Although he also felt that it might not be appropriate to open the city gate at this time, he did not expect the matter to be so serious.
Others don't know, but Changsun Wuji knows that Li Shimin has a special ability—he can foresee and perceive some dangers in advance
Because of this special ability, Changsun Wuji has always believed that Li Shimin is the chosen one, otherwise he had a good relationship with Wang Junlin back then, so why would he follow Li Shimin who is not the eldest son of the Tang king? Conquer the world.
In the distance, Xu Shiji saw that Li Shimin still did not open the city to send troops to respond, he sighed secretly, thinking that Li Shimin had refreshed his understanding of him time and time again.
Xu Shiji knew that he was able to suppress Li Shimin in Bashu, not because he was better than Li Shimin in strategy, but mainly because he led the Wagang Camp and the Far East Army.
First of all, the combat power of the army itself is much stronger than that of the Li family army.
Secondly, many years ago, Wang Junlin had already set the general strategic direction for the Far Eastern Army: the Far Eastern Army half relied on fighting on the battlefield, and half relied on some preparations and planning outside the battlefield.
This includes factors such as weapons and equipment, intelligence, popular support, and public opinion, and the Far Eastern Army has done very solid work in these aspects before the war.
In comparison, Li Jiajun's awareness of these aspects is much worse, and even some aspects have no such awareness at all, such as the field of ideology.
This is not to say that Li Shimin's mentality is weaker than Wang Junlin's, in fact, he is only stronger than Wang Junlin's. There is a generation gap of more than a thousand years, and there is Nie Xiaoyu, a super cheat plus cheating device.
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Sometimes people's hearts are really strange. What Li Yuanji hates the most at this time is not Xu Shiji, nor the soldiers of the Far East Army who chased and killed him, but Li Shimin who has not opened the city gate for a long time and sent troops to meet him.
But Li Yuanji has no choice now, in the distance
Driven by the Eastern Army, he had no choice but to escape in the direction of Hanzhong City. He led his own soldiers and relied on his own high-strength martial arts skills to fight all the way out of the encirclement. All he knew was that the Far Eastern Army was chasing after the horses.
I don't know how long it took, but when he saw that the gate of Hanzhong was less than a hundred paces away, he faintly felt the sound of horseshoes behind him weaken. Looking back halfway, he found that out of the 20,000 cavalry he had brought, there were only less than one left. Thousands of people.
But at this time Li Yuanji couldn't care less, he shouted loudly: "Second brother, open the city gate quickly, open the city gate quickly!"
At the head of the city, Li Shimin remained unmoved.
"Second Brother, I beg you, please open the city gate quickly..."
"Li Shimin, I brought soldiers to rescue you, but now you are ignoring death, you bastard, are you still a brother?"
On the top of the city, the muscles on Li Shimin's face twitched slightly, and his body trembled slightly, but he didn't change his mind at all and opened the city gate.
He just witnessed the process of the Far Eastern Army chasing and killing Li Yuanji, and he saw very clearly that the Far Eastern Army could kill Li Yuanji and everyone he led, but they deliberately did not kill them, and even drove them to the Hanzhong city. is intentional.
This also verified his premonition just now, so it is even more impossible for him to open the city gate.
"Li Shimin, if you don't open the city gate, I will bring all these people to crash and die on the city gate today." With red eyes, Li Yuanji slammed into the city gate, followed by nearly a thousand cavalrymen who escaped from him After a moment of hesitation, he also rushed towards the city gate.
In the rear, a large number of cavalry from the Far Eastern Army rushed towards the city gate with a distance of twenty steps.
Witnessing this scene, Li Shimin's face changed, a flash of determination flashed in his eyes, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Whoever dares to charge into the city gate, shoot me to death."
A group of soldiers with bows around them was shocked, but they still obeyed Li Shimin's order immediately.
Several pieces of arrows rained down one after another, and nearly a thousand Li family troops fell one after another, including Li Yuanji, and the wave of cavalry from the Far Eastern Army who was about to charge the city was also forced to retreat.
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Seven days later, Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu took the big boat of Fanyang Chamber of Commerce, went south by sea, entered the inland from the mouth of the Yangtze River, and arrived in Yangzhou.
The weather in Yangzhou was fine and cloudless on this day.
The trumpet is long and the golden drum is sounding. At the largest Yangtze River port where Yangzhou is located, the senior civil and military officials of the Far East Army headed by Xu Jingzong, Huang Shaoqiu, Pei Shiju, and Yu Shiji in the three counties in the south of the Yangtze River put on brand-new official uniforms and stand upright. Waiting for Wang Junlin to come.
"The ministers and others see the lord!" Xu Jingzong, Huang Shaoqiu and others pushed Jinshan and inverted jade pillars to prostrate themselves on the ground. Pei Shiju, Yu Shiji and other old officials of the Sui Dynasty also followed behind them, kneeling on the ground in a dark mass.
In addition to Nie Xiaoyu, the main high-level officers of the Far East Army who came with Wang Junlin included Shen Guoer, the commander of the Military Intelligence Department, Yang Kongchan, the head of the Fanyang Chamber of Commerce, and Zhang Tiangang, the commander of the Special Forces.
At this time, Shen Guoer, Yang Kongchan, and Zhang Tiangang who were following Wang Junlin hurriedly moved aside, only Nie Xiaoyu stood behind Wang Junlin.
Xu Jingzong, Huang Shaoqiu and others from the Far Eastern Army naturally dare not have the slightest opinion on Nie Xiaoyu's ignorant behavior. , it seems that the prince is really going to attack Huainan, Huaibei and Jiangnan.