Turbulent Times Chapter 1711: Half of the Tang Dynasty has been lost
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"How courageous!" Li Xiaogong shouted loudly, and hurriedly hid behind a big tree next to him.
Among the buzzing sound, a rain of arrows fell, Li Xiaogong managed to dodge the rain of arrows, and hid behind the big tree, unexpectedly there was a sound of wind above his head.
Li Xiaogong groaned inwardly, he quickly drew his saber and slashed upwards.
With a "bang", he knocked the assassin flying from above his head. Unexpectedly, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he withdrew the long knife in his hand, and four knives slashed at him from all directions around him at the same time.
Li Xiaogong tried his best to dodge, but the man above his head just now was very strong, he would not be able to come back for a while, so he managed to dodge the three knives, but he couldn't dodge in time on his right thigh, so he got a knife.
With a loud roar, Li Xiaogong slashed three times like lightning, repelling the other three people, and kicked the assassin who injured him seriously.
But at this moment, he was short of breath, but his body was already staggering and unable to stand still.
Stretching out his hand to support another tree next to him, and stabilizing his body, Li Xiaogong felt a burst of numbness in his thigh, and then felt pain.
"It's not good, it's poisonous." Li Xiaogong's face was livid, and he raised his head to the sky and let out a long howl, which was a report to the soldiers in the front yard, but before he could make a louder howl, he felt dizzy and fell to the ground with a thump, not knowing whether he was alive or dead. .
Su Wei came out from behind a rockery with four generals, ordered someone to tie up Li Xiaogong, then took out the general's tiger charm from Li Xiaogong, and said to his confidants: "Come here, use Li Xiaogong's In the name of this, summon all the generals in the city to discuss matters.”
Just before Su Wei's men went to the camp, under Yuehu's arrangement, several of Li Xiaogong's confidant officers had already received the news that Su Wei, the supervising army, had framed the general for rebellion and had sent him to the camp. The general took it down, intending to kill him, and to destroy Li Xiaogong's family.
Especially Li Xiaogong's second son, Li Wenyong, was originally a general in the army. After hearing the news, he became anxious and led 5,000 cavalry directly to the Supervisor's Mansion.
Su Wei and four of Li Shimin's confidant generals thought that this matter was done very carefully, but who would have thought that as soon as Li Xiaogong was captured here, Li Xiaogong's confidantes and family members in the other side knew about it, and they were caught off guard. It was too late to mobilize troops, so they were surrounded by soldiers led by Li Wenyong and others. Originally, Li Wenyong and others never thought of killing Su Wei and the four generals directly. Unexpectedly, during the scuffle, these five people died inexplicably. up.
Of course, these five people were shot to death by the hidden masters of the Da'an National Security Bureau. And not only these five people died, but also Li Xiaogong who was only poisoned.
On the one hand, Li Wenyong and others were angry that Li Xiaogong was killed by Su Wei and others. On the other hand, they also knew that Su Wei and those four generals were the confidantes of His Majesty Li Shimin, representing His Majesty, and they had no way to turn around now. Even if there is no room for rebellion, His Majesty the Emperor and the court have determined that they want to rebel.
Moreover, now that the matter has come to this point, they can't help but suspect that their father or their general Li Xiaogong also secretly colluded with Da'an State.
Therefore, there was no need for the people arranged by Yuehu to guide them. Li Wenyong and others first killed Su Wei's people and the four generals' personal soldiers, confidantes, direct descendants, and family members, and then... directly Open the door and surrender.
Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, and Pei Yuanqing outside the city were also taken aback.
A separatist plan, the coquettish and coquettish envoy of the Separation Department, Yuehu, personally dispatched this matter in the city, but he only thought that Yuehu and others could cause chaos in Tongguan City, at most it would be Get a group of people, open a certain city gate from the inside, and then lead them into the city, and have a grand street battle with the defenders.
Unexpectedly, Yuehu and others were so fierce that they directly caused the guard Li Xiaogong and the supervising army to fight, killing both of them, and let the people below open the door and surrender directly.
This is really taking down the east gate of Tang State without a single soldier.
To be honest, facing the high and thick walls of Tongguan City these days, and the gunpowder weapons that the defenders on the top of the city also have, although Qin Qiong led Luo Shixin, Pei Yuanqing and others, they also made several plans that could break the city. , Let alone the possibility of failure, even if it succeeds, the loss will be at least 10,000 to 20,000 people.
"Luo Shixin, immediately lead the 50,000 cavalrymen under your command to pass through Tongguan City and leave the city directly from the west gate. Don't delay for a moment. Use lightning tactics to launch a surprise attack on the hinterland of the Tang Kingdom. You decide when to stop, but it must not be too extreme. deep, surrounded by the Tang army."
"Pei Yuanqing, you have 50,000 people under your command to stay and take over Tongguan City with the commander, and complete the rectification of the surrendered army within three days, and then draw out the troops as soon as possible to follow up with the Whirlwind Legion."
Although Qin Qiong was shocked, it did not prevent him from giving the most correct order at this time, and it was expected that the situation on the side of Tongguan City was unknown to the rear of the Tang Dynasty, so Luo Shixin was asked to pass through the city directly, in the fastest way. Quickly carried out a surprise attack on the hinterland of the Tang country, and the Tang country was caught off guard.
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Da'an Kingdom, Tianxiang three years, September 3rd.
The east gate of the Tang Dynasty, Tongguan City opened the gate and surrendered.
On the same day, Luo Shixin broke into the hinterland of the Tang Kingdom with lightning, and within three days he ran for 600 miles, captured six military camps, eight county towns, and directly captured the entire Tongguan County and most of the neighboring Hongnong County.
In the end, Luo Shixin had to stop because Luo Shixin divided his troops to garrison the captured military strongholds and county towns, and the number of troops he could mobilize was less than 5,000.
At this time, Tang Emperor Li Shimin received the news that Tongguan was lost and that Luo Shixin had broken through dozens of cities. He was shocked and quickly mobilized his army to deploy defenses at the border of Shangluo County.
During this period, Qin Qiong disrupted the establishment of the 100,000 surrendered troops in Tongguan City. According to the personnel information provided by the Security Office, he promoted and reused some of the surrendered army generals, and organized all the 100,000 surrendered troops into Luo Shixin's Whirlwind Corps and Pei Yuanqing's Taiyuan Army.
At this moment, Da'an Kingdom's East Road soldiers doubled, and their momentum was extremely large.
However, Qin Qiong did not rush to launch an attack immediately, but digested the captured Tongguan County and Hongnong County. Only then did they continue to attack Tang State Shangluo County.
As long as Shangluo County is captured, they will directly face the boundary of Jingzhao Prefecture where Chang'an City is located.
In fact, not only the army from the east, Xu Shiji left Shangguanhu in the west to stare at Heifengguan City. It is also approaching Chang'an City.
All of a sudden, for the Tang State, the situation on the battlefield took a turn for the worse, except that in the southeast of Luoyang, the elder Sun Wuji led an army of 150,000 troops to personally sit in the town, and Li Jing led 100,000 troops and failed to capture it by all means. , East and West of Da'an Country
The two armies are less than five hundred miles away from Chang'an City.
The court of the Tang Dynasty was terrified, the officials were terrified, and the morale of the army was inevitably affected.
Sun Wuji, the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty, personally commanded the troops to guard Luoyang City. Although he was extremely intelligent and powerful, and he had received the true biography of his father, Sun Sheng, he was not only good at martial arts, but he was also good at commanding troops and fighting.
However, although Changsun Wuji wanted to block the news from the 150,000 defenders in Luoyang City, under the operation of Anzi in Luoyang City in the Security House, the 150,000 defenders inevitably knew about both things. Fang Fang's army has failed successively, and the news that the Da'an army is about to hit Chang'an City.
Furthermore, the Anzi of the Security Office wantonly spread rumors, stirring up the hearts of the people and thus affecting the morale of the army. Within a few days, the morale of the defenders of Luoyang City dropped a lot.
Li Jing seized the opportunity, and at the cost of the self-destruction of two hundred steel-armored dead soldiers, finally let a wave of troops attack Luoyang City, and established a stronghold. Steady footing, more and more people climbed to the top of the city, and finally broke the city.
Sun Wuji, Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty, thought about defeat before fighting. He was obviously fully prepared for street fighting after the city was broken. The street fighting that followed was a full day and night. In addition to the casualties of the siege these days, Li Jing led the South Road The army finally paid nearly 20,000 horses before completely taking Luoyang City.
Furthermore, Changsun Wuji saw that Luoyang City was already difficult to retake, so he decisively left 50,000 people behind, and led 80,000 people to retreat calmly.
At this point, the Luoyang War, which lasted for more than a month, ended. The final result was that Da'an Kingdom captured the special significance of Luoyang City and two counties near Luoyang, beheaded 50,000 Tang troops, and captured 30,000 surrendered troops.
If such a ratio of casualties was placed in the Sui Dynasty and even the previous dynasties, it would have been considered a great victory, but it is considered the most casualty in the foreign wars between the Far East Army and Da'an since the founding of the country in these years.
There are three factors that caused such a large number of casualties.
First, the Tang army also had gunpowder weapons, and they were the defenders of the city. They kept grenades and explosives from the top of the city, causing great losses to the Da'an army that was besieging the city.
Secondly, when Yang Guang built the new capital in Luoyang, the city wall was extremely tall and strong, and it can be called the largest city and the strongest city in the world. reinforcement.
Thirdly, it is the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty, Sun Wuji, who is worthy of being the number one existence among the 24 heroes of Lingyan Pavilion in the Tang Dynasty in the original history. It's really a question of whether someone else can take down Luoyang City so quickly.
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Changsun Wuji led 80,000 defeated soldiers all the way back to Shangluo County City, and immediately ordered to prepare to defend the city. According to his estimation, Li Jing would lead the army to chase and kill Shangluo City in half a day at most, besiege Shangluo City, and then launch a fierce attack force attack.
There were originally 20,000 troops in the city, and with the 80,000 who came back, there were still 100,000 troops in Shangluo County.
After these days of fighting, it has been further confirmed that their Tang army can't defeat the same number of Da'an troops in field battles, but Luoyang City can hold for more than a month, and it has caused a lot of casualties to the Da'an army, which makes Changsun Wuji confident After learning the lesson of Luoyang City, stick to Shangluo City for a month, but the premise is that there is enough food in the city.