Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2252 Huo Qubing VS Li Shimin

Chapter 2248: Huo Qubing VS Li Shimin

After hearing Bai Feng's words, Li Jing was not disappointed either. After all, if even the country was completely infiltrated, then Li Shimin would be sorry for his title of King of Tang.

"There are two hundred Black Ice Terrace swordsmen in Chang'an City, but bad people are very strict against us. If there is no perfect plan, it may be difficult to open the city gate with only these two hundred swordsmen." Mo Ya said.

Li Jing understood the meaning of Mo Crow's words, and he hoped that he would not activate the two hundred swordsmen lightly until he was sure, otherwise the two hundred swordsmen would surely die.

Li Jing's status is much higher than that of Mo Crow and Bai Feng, but the Black Ice Tower directly serves the king of Qin and is not under Li Jing's control, so Li Jing can't command the Black Ice Tower, but because Li Jing invaded Guanzhong, the Black Ice Tower is in Guanzhong The power will temporarily obey Li Jing's orders.

"Don't worry, the two hundred swordsmen will not be activated easily until we are absolutely sure."

Li Jing pondered, thinking about how to plan in his mind so that the role of the two hundred swordsmen could be brought into full play.

"Report... to the governor, Yang Jian led the army to leave Lantian and head straight for our army."

"Sure enough, he's out of town."

Li Jing was immediately overjoyed. The reason why he bypassed Lantian and assumed a stance to go directly to Chang'an was to force Yang Jian out of the city.

After all, if Yang Jian was determined to defend Lantian, it would be impossible for the Qin army to break through the city without tens of thousands of people dying, and Lantian blocked the Qin army's food road, so it was one of the cities that must be occupied.

Li Jing didn't know if Yang Jian would be fooled. After all, Yang Jian also had a resourceful Sima Yi. It was easy to deceive Yang Jian, but it was not so easy to deceive Sima Yi.

But no matter whether it succeeds or not, Li Jing has to give it a try, it's better than sitting still and waiting for death.

Li Jing had already made preparations to withdraw his troops and surround Lantian again if the plan failed, but he didn't expect that the Black Ice Terrace gave him a big surprise and directly instigated six counties.

The surrender of the six counties in Guanzhong to Qin made Li Jing's strategy more perfect, directly changing from a conspiracy to a conspiracy. This is the main reason why Sima Yi did not persuade Yang Jian.

"With Sima Yi around, Yang Jian will definitely not confront our army head-on, but it's not up to them to decide."

Li Jing smiled coldly, and ordered: "Huang Zhong, who sent the order to Gaoguan, ordered him to lead his troops to Lantian immediately after the Tang army left Lantian.

By the way, with Sima Yi's ruthlessness, it is very likely that he will leave behind in the city, so let Huang Zhong be more cautious and take strict precautions against the Tang army's fire attack.

In addition, don't think about the grain depot or anything else, Sima Yi will never leave half a grain of grain for our army. "

"promise."

While Li Jing and Sima Yi were fighting wits, Li Shimin had ordered the abandonment of Wuzhangyuan, and the whole army returned to Chang'an to defend to the death.

The reason why Li Shimin voluntarily gave up Wuzhangyuan, a place where military strategists must fight, was actually a helpless move.

Don’t give up. Fenglingdu has been captured by Zhang Liao, Yao Pass is also occupied by Li Jing, and 10,000+ elite Qin troops entered the pass. The Tang army can only compete with the Qin army by defending the city.

In addition, Lu Bu was leading five thousand cavalry, heading straight for Wuzhangyuan.

Although Wuzhangyuan is dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack, it can only block one side of the Qin army. If it is attacked by two sides, the Tang army in Wuzhangyuan will be in a very dangerous situation.

There was Huo Qubing in the front, and Lu Bu in the back. If they didn't withdraw in time, once Lu Bu blocked the retreat, Li Shimin would not be able to withdraw even if he wanted to.

The Qin army didn't even need to fight the Tang army. It only needed to be dragged until Li Jing led the army to arrive. When the three armies were encircled, the Qin army could wipe out Li Shimin's [-] troops without even paying a big price.

The [-] Tang troops in Wuzhangyuan are the last strength of the Tang state. If the entire army is wiped out, then the Tang state will have no power to fight back against the Qin state, and can only be beaten passively. Therefore, Li Shimin must bring the [-] troops back to Chang'an just work.

Recall that he was full of confidence when he sent troops, but at this time Li Shimin only felt frustrated.

With an army of [-] troops in his hands, it's not that he has no chance to eliminate Huo Qubing, but Huo Qubing is too cunning, and his use of cavalry is extremely clever. Relying on the speed advantage of cavalry, he is as slippery as a loach.

Li Shimin launched a total of three encirclement campaigns, but Huo Qubing saw through all of them, and escaped from the encirclement of the Tang army ahead of schedule.

The cavalry of Li Shimin and Li Siyuan's two troops combined is actually only [-]. If they can entangle Huo Qubing's troops, they can still surround Huo Qubing's troops, but the cavalry of the Tang Army can't catch up.

Li Shimin even passed the cavalry himself, and showed the fastest marching speed, but he couldn't keep up with the speed of the Qin army, and instead was pulled further and further away by the Qin army.

It is unreasonable that the Xiliang big horse is not as fast as the Bingzhou pony horse, but the Bingzhou wolf cavalry under Huo Qubing's command is faster than the Tang army cavalry riding the Xiliang horse.

The closest Li Shimin came to success was the third time. After summing up the experience of the previous two failures, the third time he almost succeeded in trapping Huo Qubing to death, but he didn't expect to kill Gongsun Xuanyuan halfway.

After Gongsun Xuanyuan subdued and reorganized the Tang army prisoners of war by virtue of his own personality charm, he led [-] cavalry and [-] soldiers to help in the battle.

Gongsun Xuanyuan's strategic vision was no worse than Huo Qubing's. He saw the weakness of the Tang army's encirclement at a glance, and then broke Li Siyuan's weak blockade, and rescued Huo Qubing from the Tang army's encirclement.

Since then, Li Shimin's three encirclement campaigns against Huo Qubing have all failed, and Fenglingdu and Gaoguan have been breached one after another, and the retreat is threatened by Lu Bu. Li Shimin has no choice but to abandon Wuzhangyuan and retreat to Chang'an.

After Gongsun Xuanyuan rescued Huo Qubing, the combined strength of the Qin army and the two armies reached [-]. In terms of combat power, they were no longer afraid of the Tang army. Naturally, it was impossible for the Tang army to escape easily.

In this regard, Li Shimin ordered Li Siyuan to retreat to Huaili and take charge of the defense of Youfufeng County. At the same time, he left an army of [-] in Wuzhangyuan, and he himself led an army of [-] to retreat to Chang'an.

The [-]-strong army that was left behind had obviously been reduced to abandoned sons, and was led by Li Sizhao, a general of Li Tang's clan.

Li Sizhao ranked second among the Thirteen Taibaos. He was the adopted son of Li Kerou, the younger brother of Li Keyong. With Li Sizhao's participation, it can be said that he has made a lot of military achievements.

Li Sizhao was implanted as Li Siyuan's younger brother, both belonged to Li Tang's clan, and won the trust and respect of Li Shimin because of their outstanding abilities.

Naturally, Li Shimin was not willing to let Li Sizhao, a brother of the family, die, but if he let other people be the abandoned son, if the other party directly surrendered to Qin, he would be shooting himself in the foot.

Now that Li Tang has reached the moment of life and death, and Li Shimin can fully trust only the descendants of Li Tang's clan, so Li Shimin can only give up Li Sizhao even if he is reluctant.

(End of this chapter)