Turbulent Times Chapter 1716: Desperate Li Shimin
One year later, the food in Chang'an City ran out, and the defenders would naturally surrender if they didn't want to starve to death. At that time, even Li Shimin couldn't stop it.
In fact, Wang Junlin also knew that Li Shimin couldn't wait for a year, because there were more than 600,000 people in Chang'an City.
At the head of Chang'an City, when Li Shimin saw Wang Junlin outside the city had people start building the wall, he already understood what Wang Junlin meant.
Li Shimin was actually lucky. This luck not only came from the 30,000 Huzhao warriors led by Xiao Yu hidden in the deep mountains of the Qinling Mountains, but also because of his confidence in holding on to Chang'an City.
Li Shimin has carefully calculated that as long as he defends Chang'an City for one year, the army of Da'an Kingdom will lose at least 200,000 people, and as time goes by, the morale and morale of the Da'an Kingdom's army will inevitably drop due to the heavy losses. shake.
At that time, under Xiao Yu's support, he may have the opportunity to lead the army out of the city to turn defeat into victory.
However, Wang Junlin didn't give him any chance at all, and directly adopted the safest tactic - building walls!
Li Shimin was naturally not reconciled, so in desperation, he immediately adopted the most correct reaction at the moment——he directly ordered the 300,000 troops out of the city to fight against the 200,000 troops outside the city of Da'an.
This field battle is of course also a decisive battle.
"Such decisiveness and courage...is worthy of being Li Shimin." In the imperial tent of the Da'an Kingdom camp outside Chang'an, Wang Junlin, Li Jing, Qin Qiong, Du Ruhui, Xu Shiji and others heard that the Tang army had begun to leave the city in an orderly manner. Slightly emotional.
For Li Shimin's reaction, Wang Junlin and others naturally expected it before, but Li Shimin made such a decision on the day the wall was built, which was somewhat beyond Wang Junlin and others' expectations.
"In that case, let Li Shimin despair in a huge field battle!" If he had no choice, Wang Junlin actually didn't want to spend a year.
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Da'an State, Tianxiang three years, November 21st, Jingzhao Mansion was cloudy.
On the vast Qinling Plain to the south of Chang'an City, a total of 500,000 troops from both sides began to line up with a distance of about two miles. .
On the Da'an side, legions and teams of cavalry were lined up neatly and their banners were clear.
The positions of long-range attack weapons such as large-scale trebuchets, giant gun crossbows, and hundred-shot crossbows are quite organized and exquisite.
Wang Junlin was dressed in a special military uniform and was sitting on a high podium. Li Jing, Du Ruhui, Qin Qiong, Xu Shiji, Luo Shixin, Cheng Yaojin, Pei Yuanqing and other generals gathered around him in the center.
Two or three miles away from the opposite side, Li Shimin personally commanded the main Tang army, with General Chai Shao as his deputy, and Changsun Wuji next to him as the chief of staff.
The people and horses of the Tang Dynasty have also assembled, and the army is waiting in full formation. From a distance, people shout and neigh, and they are as strong as a mountain. It's just that morale is a little low.
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"Li Jing, I'm just watching from the sidelines in this field battle, and you will command the battle. According to the plan we set before, defeating the enemy in one battle will make Li Shimin frightened." Wang Junlin is very clear that although he is also old Yes, but the scale of the battle between commanding 200,000 horses and 300,000 enemy troops, I certainly can't compare with Li Jing.
"The minister obeys the order!"
With the sound of war drums and the fluttering of military flags, Li Jing began to mobilize troops and generals, and the army began to mobilize slowly following the instructions of the trumpeter and semaphore hand next to Li Jing of the Chinese army.
On the opposite side, Li Shimin sat upright on his horse, with a large flag behind his back, looking solemnly at the slowly unfolding formation on the opposite side.
Li Shimin glanced at the generals, and said slowly: "We have 300,000 horses, and the other party only has 200,000, and Xiao Yu's side has sent an order to come out at the critical moment to determine the fate, so this In the First World War, as long as we block the first wave of the enemy's powerful offensive, we will definitely be able to dampen their spirit, and then defeat them with our superior force. At that time, we will not only be able to defend Chang'an City, but also completely turn the tide of the battle and defeat the Da'an Kingdom , to restore the territory of our Tang Kingdom."
The generals of the Tang Kingdom who looked very dignified heard the words, all of them were refreshed, there was some confidence in their eyes, and their fighting spirit also increased a lot, because what Li Shimin said was indeed reasonable.
Although Li Shimin said this, he didn't have any confidence in his heart. He secretly asked the No. 1 puppet next to him: "National teacher, Xiao Yu's 30,000 horses have been sent a few days ago! Don't be surprised."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, the 30,000 war horses have been secretly sent over in batches." No. 1 puppet said: "Xiao Yu is both civil and military, quite capable, and the great witch of the Huzhao clan named Tiangou is also a supernatural power." There should be no accidents for the vast number of aliens to be led by the two of them with 30,000 elite soldiers."
Besides, Chai Shao's hanging heart also dropped a lot, and he said: "It's better to be like this, later the two armies will fight, and when we are exhausted from the battle, if Xiao Yu's army suddenly breaks out, it will have a miraculous effect. "
Li Shimin thought about it for a while, frowned slightly, and felt a little uneasy in his heart, but the matter has come to this point, he has no choice, and some things are beyond his control.
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"Boom boom..."
The battle drums roared, and the horns sounded. The infantry of Da'an Kingdom was united by the battalion under the legion, and the spear phalanxes had been set up one by one.
The cavalry is also based on the battalion under the legion as a combat unit, wearing black steel plate armor, holding a fast crossbow in the left hand, and a long spear with a flat steel tip in the right hand.
Other long-range attack weapons such as trebuchets, giant gun crossbows, and hundred-shot crossbows are interspersed in the gaps between the infantry phalanxes, and their respective firing positions have been set up. It looks chaotic, but it is actually orderly.
Of course not all the armies of the two sides were placed on the frontal battlefield, but the strength of each of them in front of them would not be less than 100,000.
The ground trembled, hoofs sounded like thunder, the sound of killing soared into the sky, and the smoke and dust filled the air. The cavalry and cavalry, infantry and cavalry on both sides collided fiercely, and people were turned on their backs. Thousands of people were killed and injured in an instant...
Li Jing and Li Shimin tried their best to mobilize troops, and soon they both attacked the other side's flank army. A full-scale melee began...
Li Jing and Li Shimin sit in the central army, constantly investing their troops, and the battle group grows stronger and stronger. Looking down from the top of the mountain, the Qinling Plain to the south of Chang'an City is full of rampaging soldiers and horses, killing the world. Light.
Almost all the forces of both sides have been invested in it.
Continuous slashing and fighting made the armies of both sides extremely exhausted. Although the strength of Da'an's army was 100,000 fewer, the armor and weapons were excellent, the battle array was fierce, and the army's combat power was obviously strong.
Just because Tang Jun also has grenades and thrown explosives.
So, in the beginning, the Da'an side only faintly gained the upper hand.
Li Shimin has worked hard to train elite soldiers in the past few years, and he has a high prestige among the soldiers under his command. Now that he is in command personally, Tang Jun is also very resilient. At least for now, it seems that he can persist for a long time.
At this moment, from the direction of Zhongnan Mountain in the Qinling Mountains, smoke and dust suddenly rose on the horizon, and soon 30,000 cavalry came like a storm, and the knights on the horses were all tall and burly.
The battle between the two armies was in full swing, and a surprise soldier suddenly appeared, which surprised everyone.
The big flag fluttered, with the words "Datang" written on it, so the soldiers of the Tang army suddenly burst into cheers like mountains and seas, their "reinforcement" has arrived!
Li Shimin was also ecstatic.
However, soon Li Shimin's complexion changed again, and so did all the Tang soldiers' complexions.
The army holding the flag of the Tang Dynasty suddenly turned halfway and rushed towards the side of their Tang army.
When Li Shimin found out that something was wrong, and mobilized the 20,000 soldiers around him who had not been used to intercept it, it was already too late.
Tengu led 30,000 horses and rushed in from the side of the Tang army, completely disrupting the Tang army's camp, but the blow to the morale of the Tang army was fatal.
Li Shimin's heart was bleeding, and he didn't care to think too much about whether Xiao Yu betrayed him, or whether Xiao Yu was also played by Wang Junlin's people.
He was always worried that the 30,000 horses brought by Xiao Yu would be discovered by the spies of Da'an, and there were people who intercepted them in advance, but he never thought that these 30,000 horses were Wang Junlin's people from the very beginning.
The glimmer of life he had been waiting for, but he didn't want to stab him in the back at the most critical moment.
Being attacked from the front and back, and stabbed from the rear by a "friendly army", the soldiers of the Tang army who were desperately fighting in front were quickly affected, and images of defeat began to appear, and soon turned into a situation of defeat.
If from the very beginning, the 30,000 people from the Huzhao tribe brought by Tiangu directly joined the Da'an army, it would not be enough to cause the Tang army to be defeated so quickly, but the timing of the appearance of these 30,000 people is really timely , and plunged headlong into Tang Jun's side formation.
Not to mention the Tang army, even if the Tang army and the Da'an army were exchanged, the result would still be defeated like a mountain.
Although I feel desperate,
After all, Li Shimin is the son of destiny, God endowed him with the strongest will, and he will not give up until the last moment.
So, he has been doing his best to save the defeat, or to organize a retreat as much as possible, so that more people can escape into Chang'an City.
Of course Li Jing knew that the 30,000 people who suddenly came out belonged to his own side. Seeing that these 30,000 people did not disappoint His Majesty's expectations, and appeared at the most critical moment, he had already ordered to wave the command flag immediately. Order the whole army to cover up and kill.
The chief generals of each legion led their troops to rush forward in a swarm. No matter how elite the Tang army was before, under such circumstances, it has become a mob that leaves its back to the enemy and only cares about fleeing for their lives.
The chase was over in less than an hour because Tang Jun was behind Chang'an City.
Li Shimin's personal charm is really strong. Under such circumstances, there are still generals who are willing to lead the people to break the back and cover the main force to retreat.
The final result was that more than half of the more than 300,000 Tang troops were killed or injured, and only about 100,000 Tang troops fled back to Chang'an City with Li Shimin.
At the last moment, Li Shimin ordered a wave of his own men to be shot to death without hesitation, opened a vacuum belt, and then closed the city gate firmly, blocking tens of thousands of his own troops from the outside of the city.
The Tang army outside the city surrendered directly because the city gate was closed.
But even so, corpses were still strewn about outside Chang'an City, and screams filled the sky.
After the war, the army of Da'an State besieged the city again, and Li Shimin led the Tang army to continue to defend the city.
However, not to mention that the defenders have changed from 300,000 to about 100,000, the last bit of morale of the Tang army has been exhausted in this battle.
The most important thing is that Li Shimin's last hope has been shattered.
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There are only 100,000 defenders left, and their morale is low. Chang'an City's defensive capabilities have dropped a lot. However, due to some reasons, Wang Junlin still did not give the order to attack the city.
The next day, Li Shimin sent an envoy, Changsun Wuji, to see Wang Junlin.
Changsun Wuji has also been physically and mentally exhausted for the past few months, his pride since he was a child has been beaten to pieces, and his insistence on himself --- Li Shimin's understanding that Li Shimin is the right man has long been shaken. This is undoubtedly a rupture of faith.
The most important thing is that he regrets so much!
You must know that he and Wang Junlin had a very good friendship, and he knew Wang Junlin earlier than almost all the important officials in Da'an Kingdom. Unfortunately, when he met Li Shimin back then, he decided that the latter was the real son of heaven.
Such remorse for torturing eldest grandson Wuji made him seem to have aged ten years in just one or two months. Originally in his prime of life, he has become a bit old.
"Come here, give the eldest grandson a seat." Wang Junlin's eyes were like lightning, and he glanced at Changsun Wuji lightly. Even in the current state, Wuji has not been greatly affected. He deserves to be the number one hero in the Tang Dynasty in history, and he has been famous for thousands of years. His will is really strong.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Changsun Wuji forcibly suppressed the horror caused by Wang Junlin's glance just now, and sat down.
"How has the eldest grandson been doing these past few years?" Wang Junlin asked casually.
Eldest Sun Wuji smiled wryly and said, "Wuji regrets not following His Majesty back then."
This is an obvious declaration of allegiance to Wang Junlin, and it is impossible for Li Shimin not to have thought of this—a person with a top mind like Changsun Wuji, it is difficult to have foolish thoughts of loyalty to any emperor, even if this Even if the person is Li Shimin. And Changsun Wuji had a good friendship with Wang Junlin back then.
But Li Shimin still sent his grandson Wuji over.
After thinking for a while, Wang Junlin understood Li Shimin's deep meaning, and said with a smile: "Wuji, Li Shimin wants to make a living, and you can be regarded as his gift to me."
If it was said to be a gift before the war between the two countries, even if Wang Junlin said it, Changsun Wuji would feel a great humiliation.
But right now he obviously knows what Li Shimin means, and he can only give a wry smile, nodded and said: "Your Majesty's eyes are like torches."
Wang Junlin sighed, and said with emotion: "It would be a pity if someone like Li Shimin died in my hands."
After a pause, Wang Junlin said again: "Let's do this! Wuji went back to Chang'an City and told Li Shimin that I would like to meet him alone and talk about something."