Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2258 I must not lose, who shoulders the survival of a country

Chapter 2254: I must not lose if I shoulder the survival of a country

Tang Jun obviously only needs to stick to Chang'an, but why did he take the initiative to go out of the city to challenge?The reason actually lies with Li Jing.

Although Li Jing hadn't directly sent troops to attack Chang'an, his series of strategies after encircling Chang'an undoubtedly put even more pressure on Li Tang's senior management, which was already under great pressure.

You know, if there is too much pressure, it will make people lose hope and eventually be completely desperate.

And Li Jing regarded Li Tang as deadly from all aspects, which undoubtedly created an illusion that Chang'an would be broken sooner or later for Li Tang's senior officials in the city, and gradually disintegrated the will of the defenders in the city to resist.

After all, fighting a war is not terrible, what is terrible is fighting a hopeless battle, knowing that you will lose.

Li Shimin was naturally aware of this too. He racked his brains and exhausted all kinds of methods, but he still couldn't inspire the fighting spirit of the defenders. After all, it was an iron fact that the Tang army was at a disadvantage.

At this time, although the Tang army's will was weak, it was obviously not ready to fight. Li Shimin really made up his mind to fight because of the battle between Zhang Liao and Li Keyong not long ago.

After receiving the news that Zhang Liao was heading east, Li Shimin guessed that Zhang Liao's goal was Tongguan, so he immediately summoned his advisers to discuss countermeasures.

However, with Li Rudu Du Ruhui's death in battle, Changsun Wuji captured, Sima Yi in Baling, the only remaining counselor in Chang'an, Li Kui, was not as good as Li Shimin in terms of military strategy, so obviously he couldn't give Li Shimin a good strategy.

After some contemplation, Li Shimin finally decided to send a letter to Li Keyong, ordering him to abandon Tongguan and retreat into Huayin to continue to resist the defense.

After all, under the attack from both sides of the Qin army, Tongguan's geographical advantage has been greatly reduced. It is only a matter of time before the fall of Tongguan.

Li Keyong had wanted to abandon Tongguan for a long time. After receiving the order, he immediately started preparing for the retreat without saying a word, but he didn't want the Qin army from Hanguguan to rush over.

Tan Daoji led [-] elite soldiers, controlled [-] catapults, [-] well rails, and [-] siege crossbows, and launched a fierce attack on Tongguan again, obviously trying to hold back Li Ke from retreating safely.

Tan Daoji's behavior, on the contrary, aroused Li Keyong's sense of crisis. After leaving [-] defenders in Tongguan, he withdrew from Tongguan overnight with [-] defenders.

Zhang Liao's army had just passed Xinfeng County, when they received the news that Li Keyong had withdrawn from Tongguan and was about to withdraw to Huayin County, so he led five thousand cavalry to go one step ahead, and rushed to stop it at full speed and starry night.

When Zhang Liao's cavalry arrived in Huayin County, Li Keyong's army was entering the city, and half of the soldiers had already entered the city.

Seeing Qin Jun coming, Tang Jun was shocked and rushed into the city, and the formation was chaotic while pushing and shoving.

Naturally, Zhang Liao would not let go of this good opportunity, and took the opportunity to attack the Tang army, killing Li Keyong by surprise, forcing Li Keyong to close the city gate and abandon nearly ten thousand soldiers.

Zhang Liao led his troops back and forth, beheading [-] Tang troops. After killing the Tang troops so that they no longer dared to resist, he surrendered more than [-] Tang troops.

How calmly Li Ke used to have a person, although he was distressed by the casualties of the army, but he would not fight on impulse, so he naturally ignored it.

Zhang Liao's provocation failed. After the army from the rear arrived, he left [-] cavalry in Huayin to guard against Li Keyong to prevent Li Keyong from going out of the city to attack him.

After Zhang Liao led his army to arrive, under the attack of the Qin army from the east and west, Tongguan, which had only [-] defenders, persisted for only three days before being breached.

The Qin army killed three thousand enemies and captured two thousand prisoners.

After the breakthrough of Tongguan, Zhang Liao, Tan Daoji and Daoji joined forces, and their strength rose to [-].

Zhang Liao ordered Gongsun Yan to lead [-] troops to guard Tongguan, while he himself and Tan Daoji led [-] troops back to Huayin, and then the army besieged the city, intending to take advantage of Li Keyong's precarious plan to attack Huayin City in one fell swoop.

After receiving the news from Li Keyong, Li Shimin felt desperate. When Tongguan's [-] troops retreated into Huayin, there were only [-] left, and they were trapped by [-] to [-] Qin troops.

The rest of the counties in Guanzhong were terrified of being killed by Huo Qubing again, and they didn't dare to fight at all, let alone support Chang'an.

Now Chang'an is completely isolated and helpless. Only, and only by himself can he overcome this difficulty, but the people inside Chang'an are panic-stricken, and there is not much fighting spirit at all.

If this continues, the will of the Chang'an defenders to resist will only become weaker and weaker. There is no need for the Qin army to attack. I am afraid that the people inside will open the city and surrender.

Therefore, a victory must be fought to stimulate the fighting spirit of the defenders, and fighting generals is the best way, and only in this way can the defenders see the hope of persevering.

Li Shimin is well aware of the strength of the generals of the Qin army outside the city. Generals such as Sun Lingming, Gao Chong, Yuwen Chengdu, and Lu Bu are all in Li Jing's army, but he is not without trump cards.

In Chang'an City, in addition to generals such as Ma Shanwei, Gao Siji, Shi Jingtang, and Xin Wenli, there were also three brothers, Yang Jian and Kong Peng.

After Xinfeng's defeat, Yang Jian did not return to Baling to join Sima Yi, but returned to Chang'an to help Li Shimin stabilize the situation, after all, Chang'an needed him more.

After the disastrous defeat at Fenglingdu, the three brothers Kong and Peng wanted to escape from Guanzhong and not get involved in the war between Qin and Tang, but Zhang Liao pursued them. Following Yin Kaishan's defeated army all the way back to Chang'an.

Considering that among the Qin army, Lu Bu and Yuwen Chengdu are currently injured, while Yang Jian and Kong Peng are in full strength, so Li Shimin dared to take the initiative to fight.

This is Li Shimin's last chance. If he fails, Chang'an will be really difficult to defend.

Yang Jian also knew Li Tang's current situation, and he felt anxious and guilty. If he hadn't been defeated all the way from Shangluo to Baling, the situation in Guanzhong would never have fallen to this point, so he made up his mind that this battle must not be lost, and he must fight for it. Tang Guo pulled back for a while.

Yang Jian had a reason why he couldn't lose, and his moves were extremely ruthless and fatal.

When Sun Lingming met an opponent of the same level, he was overjoyed to see Liexin, and he went all out when he made a move.

The battle between the two sides can be described as extremely fierce, and people don't want to miss a second.

Looking at Yang Jian who was fighting fiercely with Sun Lingming in the city, Li Shimin cheered him silently in his heart, then turned to look at Kong Peng beside him, and found that the other party was watching the battle intently, and held back his words.

Li Shimin has already missed Jiang Shang, who is extremely resourceful, and now he meets Kong Peng, the champion of the three armies. He doesn't want to miss it anyway, but the other party obviously doesn't have much interest in Li Tang, who is sunset, so Li Shimin is especially cautious when dealing with Kong Peng. careful.

Kong Peng didn't care about Li Shimin's attitude. He stared at Yang Jian and Sun Lingming outside the city with complicated eyes.

He thought he was the third most powerful person in the world besides his elder brother and Li Cunxiao who had never seen him before, but he didn't expect to meet two stronger people, Sun Lingming and Yang Jian, so soon.

"Just wait, I, Kong Peng, will surpass you sooner or later."

Not only was Kong Peng not hit, but his eyes were full of fighting spirit, and he felt more and more that it was so right to leave the family.

The duel between Sun Lingming and Yang Jian outside the city has gone on for [-] rounds, and their battle armors have been damaged to the point of disrepute. exhaust.

"Change horses and fight again."

The two spoke in unison, and then returned together. After changing the horses, they fought again until reaching [-] rounds, and the second horse was exhausted again.

This time the two did not change horses, but chose to dismount and fight on foot.

What everyone didn't expect was that the two fought until dark, but they didn't have the slightest intention to stop.

Li Jing had no choice but to order the soldiers to hold up the torches, and let Sun Lingming and Yang Jian "light up the night battle".

Both Sun Lingming and Yang Jian had amazing eyesight, even in the dark it was like daytime, so Li Jing's actions were superfluous.

In the middle of the night after the battle, Li Jing was too sleepy, so he went back to rest first, and asked Gao Chongyuwen to give Sun Lingming a raid in order to prevent Sun Lingming from making mistakes. He didn't want the duel between the two to be over when he woke up.

After a day and night of intense fighting, both Sun Lingming and Yang Jian had exhausted their physical strength, but they still persisted, and neither of them wanted to admit defeat.

"Hey, the surname Yang, it's hard to tell the winner if we continue to fight, how about a draw?"

After hearing Sun Lingming's words, Yang Jian said indifferently. "What, are you going to admit defeat?"

Sun Ling was angry: "Admit defeat? You deserve it."

"Then keep fighting."

"Hit it, I'm afraid you are a grandson."

Nail, nail, nail...

Fighting until noon, the two fought against each other with thousands of strokes, but they still couldn't decide the winner.

After Sun Lingming beat Yang Jian back with a stick, he panted heavily with the stick, and while being wary of the opponent, he asked a little puzzled: "Hey, Yang Jian, why are you working so hard when you know you can't beat me?"

"I, who shoulder the life and death of a country, must not lose."

Yang Jian took a long breath, his eyes were full of determination, he gritted his teeth and said: "There is no draw in this battle, the winner must be decided."

For Yang Jian, a draw is a defeat, so he does not accept a draw.

Even if he risked his life, he had to win. He couldn't afford to lose this battle.

(End of this chapter)