Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2470 The Great Victory in Hojing (1) - The Civil Disturbance in Chang'an
Chapter 2466: Chang'an civil strife
Baling City.

"The army has retreated, the Qin army has retreated."

As the Qin army retreated like a tide, Ba Ling City suddenly burst into cheers.

After three days of high-intensity defense of the city, Baling City was no longer as clean as it was three days ago, and became extremely dilapidated, and there were wounded soldiers and corpses everywhere in the city.

Seeing that the Qin army finally retreated, Li Mu and Jiang Shang couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief.

The siege troops of the Qin Army on the third day were all the main force of the Qin Army. The offensive was so fierce that they didn't know how they survived the day. Fortunately, they managed to persevere.

"General, you haven't closed your eyes all day and all night. This is just boiled chicken soup. Drink it while it's hot."

Li Mu looked at the chicken soup in front of him, but said: "Send it to General Yang Jian. He hasn't closed his eyes for three days and three nights, and he hasn't eaten. He has to eat."

"promise."

The battle between Yang Jian and Sun Lingming lasted only half a day, and ended with Yang Jian's voluntary giving up.

Because it was still a war of attrition, and the main purpose of his trip was to help Li Mu defend Baling City, not to defeat Sun Lingming.

With Yang Jian returning, plus Lei Zhenzi and Yang Ren, there are three gods of war in Baling City, obviously not so easy to fight.

Sure enough, the siege on the first day, even under the command of Wu Qi and Sima Cuo, ended in failure, and the overall combat power of the surrendered army was still a little weaker.

On the second day, Wu Qi ordered the main force of the Qin army and the descending army to attack the city together, and the total attack strength was twice as strong as yesterday.

Faced with such a strong offensive, Li Mu also used his ability to defend the city to the extreme, and finally managed to defend the city for the next day.

On the third day, the main force of the Qin army attacked the city, and attacked the east and west gates at the same time.

Even Li Mu, who has been promoted to 105 in command, can't command in such a situation, so he had to get rid of Jiang Shang to help him guard a gate, which barely survived the third day.

But what to do next?
Judging from the intensity of the siege on the third day, even if all the defenders in Baling City were wiped out, it would not last ten days, let alone a month.

At this thought, Li Mu was full of confusion, not knowing what to do.

Jiang Shang saw everything about Li Mu, and comforted him after seeing this scene: "General Li Mu attacked fiercely in three days, and the Qin army suffered heavy casualties. Wu Qi is a general who loves soldiers, and the Qin army's pension is so high. , I think he will suspend the offensive, at least he will not continue the death attack."

Siege warfare is also divided into levels. The highest level is a death attack regardless of casualties, which is to break through the city in the shortest time.

If the attack is ruthless, tens of thousands of people will be killed or injured in a day.

This is the way the allied forces of the princes attacked Tokyo, because all the people who attacked the city were Japanese soldiers, and no matter how many people died, it didn't feel bad.

But if they were their own people, not many people would do this, because the cost is too great.

The second level of siege is the siege method, which is a war of attrition. It does not care about the length of the siege. It mainly uses the strength to kill and injure the enemy, and grinds the opponent to death little by little. much smaller.

Jiang Shang was right in guessing that Wu Qi was indeed planning to suspend the offensive. After all, the casualties were too great for a strong attack regardless of casualties. It is not worth losing tens of thousands of soldiers for a mere Baling City.

Li Mu immediately showed joy when he heard this, and asked, "Really?"

Jiang Shang pretended to count with his fingers, put on the appearance of a magic stick, and said: "The possibility is as high as [-]%."

If it was someone else, it would have been a slap in the face, but after getting along with each other these days, Li Mu already thinks that Jiang Shang is a good fortune teller, so he accepts Jiang Shangdel's tricks.

"Great, with Mr. here, Ba Ling has no worries."

Li Mu left happily, mobilized the troops in the city, and arranged for tomorrow's defense.

Jiang Shang looked at Li Mu's back, but his smile gradually froze, and he said to himself, "Why does this old man feel so restless?"

Jiang Shang thought about it and couldn't think of the reason. After all, with Li Mu and him, Baling didn't show signs of breaking the city.

Could it be that Wu Qi was going to attack until the end of Baling City?
But if he did this, even if he broke Ba Ling City and the Qin army suffered too many casualties, Wu Qi's fault would outweigh his merit.

With Wu Qi's wisdom, it is impossible to do this.

After thinking about it, Jiang Shang didn't think of the reason, so he planned to use the astrology of timing and inefficiency at night to try his luck and test the good and bad.

After nightfall, Jiang Shang looked at the brightly lit Qin army camp in the distance, and then looked up at the starry sky.

I saw that the emperor star belonging to Ying Hao suddenly bloomed brilliantly, while the king star belonging to Li Shimin became increasingly dim, and even threatened to fall.

Jiang Shang was shocked when he saw this: "How could this happen? It was fine a few days ago. Although Wang Xing is dim, it is not on the verge of falling. Why is it so dim all of a sudden?"

Judging from what the astrology shows, Li Shimin is likely to die.

As for the reason, Jiang still didn't know, but he knew that Li Shimin was the grandson of Master Taiqing, and Li Yuanba was also under his command.

Even if Li Shimin lost to the Qin army and couldn't defend the Guanzhong, he shouldn't have fallen, right?

"What is the reason?"

After Jiang Shang thought hard, he finally thought of a reason to fuck, and he said to himself with some uncertainty: "Could it be that because Ba Ling defended, and the two small victories before, Li Shimin felt that the Qin army outside Chang'an City was not a good one?" Victory, so you want to go out of the city and wipe out the [-] Qin troops outside Chang'an?"

The reason why I’m not sure is because in Jiang Shang’s view, it’s impossible for someone as smart as Li Shimin to do such a stupid thing, but when he thinks about it carefully, he has done a lot of stupid things, so it makes more sense up.

"No, it's impossible. Does Li Shimin really want to go out of the city and fight the Qin army? Doesn't he know that among the [-] Qin troops outside the city, [-] are cavalry?"

As soon as this idea appeared, Jiang Shang's forehead was dripping with cold sweat.

It would be fine if Li Shimin won the city, but if he lost, he and Li Mu tossed and tossed at Baling, and finally gained a little advantage, but it was all gone at once, and the situation in Guanzhong would be nothing. room for maneuver.

Once upon a time, Jiang Shang still thought that Li Shimin was also a generation of enlightened masters, but now he only thinks that he is a pig teammate.

What are you doing out of town?Wouldn't it be good to stay in Chang'an honestly, defend until Chang'an City was breached, and then flee back to Hanzhong?
Why go out of the city to fight the Qin army so desperately?
Although Jiang Shang didn't know if Li Shimin would do this, but if he did, there was a great possibility that everyone's efforts would be in vain, so he had to find a way to let Li Shimin kill this terrible idea .

Jiang Shang hurriedly went to find Li Mu, because only Li Mu could contact Li Shimin, and then wrote a letter in front of him, the content of which was naturally to persuade Li Shimin not to leave the city.

"General Li Mu, you must deliver this letter to Duke Tang as soon as possible."

Seeing Jiang Shang's eagerness, Li Mu couldn't help asking: "What happened?"

"It's too late to explain, you send it first, and then the old man will explain to you."

"it is good."

After Li Mu let the pigeon fly, Jiang Shang explained his guess, but Li Mu couldn't deny it. He obviously didn't believe that Li Shimin would make such a decision, but felt that Jiang Shang was making too much fuss.

What can Jiang Shang say about this, it can only be said that he is just in case.

What Jiang Shang and Li Mu didn't know was that the carrier pigeon they released had only just flown out of Baling City before being shot down by the eagle shooting team organized by Wu Qi.

Although there are not many people in the eagle shooting team, there are only a dozen or so, but all of them are excellent archers, and they are eagle shooters on the grassland.

They can shoot even eagles, but can they still shoot pigeons?Even in the dark.

The next day, the Qin army continued to attack the city, and as Jiang Shang expected, the offensive was much weaker.

Obviously, Wu Qi felt sorry for the casualties and was reluctant to continue the strong attack, so he slowed down the attack.

Seeing this, Li Mu focused all his attention on defending the city, but Jiang Shang was a little out of his mind, because after so long, there was still no reply from Chang'an, which is obviously abnormal.

Jiang Shang quickly found Li Mu and said, "The pigeons that were released yesterday must have been intercepted by the Qin army, otherwise it is impossible that there has been no reply."

"Then what should we do?" Li Mu asked.

"After nightfall, release all the pigeons at the same time, so that the news may be sent back to Chang'an."

Li Mu was obviously reluctant when he heard this. After all, if you released all the pigeons just because of your guess, then he would have no way to communicate with the outside world.

Jiang Shang saw Li Mu's reluctance, and persuaded Li Mu after some persuasion.

This time Li Mu released hundreds of carrier pigeons carrying the same letter at the same time. Naturally, it was impossible for Qin Jun's eagle shooting team to shoot all of them. Jiang Shang's letter was finally taken to Luoyang by the carrier pigeons, but it was a pity. late.

When Jiang Shang's letter reached Chang'an, Li Shimin had already led his army out of the city to start a decisive battle with Wang Jian, but he never saw Jiang Shang's letter at all.

In the evening of the next day, more than 200 carrier pigeons flew from Chang'an to Baling City. After 20% of them were shot down, more than [-] pigeons flew into the city.

After Li Mu ordered people to gather the carrier pigeons, he took off all the bamboo tubes that were bound, and the contents inside were all the same, that is, Li Shimin's defeat in the Chang'an War.

"How could this be?"

After reading it, Li Mu felt dizzy for a while, and couldn't believe that Li Shimin had really left the city, and that the [-] army could not defeat Wang Jian's [-] army.

Jiang Shang's face was also extremely ugly, but he still suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and read all the contents on the letterhead, hoping to get more information from it.

Jiang Shang guessed from the very beginning that if Li Shimin went out to fight in the city, the probability of defeat would be as high as [-]%, but if he lost [-] against [-], he wouldn't lose so badly, would he?

Li Shimin's Tang army has [-] people, including the two elite battalions of Xuanjia Army and Feixiong Army, which are twice as strong as the Qin Army.

As for the generals, Li Shimin has under his command: Li Yuanba, Ma Shanwei, Gao Siji and other fierce generals, and also got the support of Ji Fa, Nan Gongshi, Xiao Sheng, Cao Bao and many other Taoist disciples halfway.

In addition, even Shen Gongbao, who is also the inheritor of the two schools of Yuqing and Shangqing, also went to Guanzhong to help Tang in order to repay the favor of the Yuqing school after receiving the letter from the Taoist school.

In addition to coming by himself, Shen Gongbao also fooled Lu Yue who was traveling with him and was going to take up the post in Song Dynasty.

Shen Gongbao told Lu Yue not to take office in Song State, but to help Li Tang with him. After all, helping Li Tang is tantamount to helping Song State.

Although Lu Yue was strong, his brain was really not very good. He was fooled by Shen Gongbao's words and believed him. He took five apprentices and two juniors, and went to Guanzhong with Shen Gongbao to help Tang.

That is to say, Li Shimin's lineup for this battle is not only Li Tang's strong generals, but also elite disciples from the three sects of Taoism. The lineup of talents is simply extremely luxurious.

Regardless of the number of troops or the lineup of generals, Li Shimin was above Wang Jian. Logically speaking, even if he couldn't win, he shouldn't be defeated.

But the fact is that Li Shimin not only lost, but also suffered the worst fiasco in his life, without even the slightest suspense.

Why did Li Shimin, who has an army of [-] and many strong generals, lose so badly this time?
The reasons are somewhat complicated, but nothing more than two major factors, internal and external.

The external factor is that when Li Shimin and Wang Jian fought decisively, the civil strife in Chang'an also broke out as Li Shimin expected.

But there was one thing that exceeded Li Shimin's expectations, that is, the traitors exposed in this civil strife search were not long-planned rebellions, but abandoned sons deliberately exposed by Li Si.

Li Si knew that Li Shimin had left behind in Chang'an, and there were more than one. If he raised troops after Li Shimin left the city, he would most likely fall into a trap.

Li Shimin believed that there were people from the Qin Army in Chang'an City, so he did not hesitate to leave Chang'an to lure the snake out of the cave. If Li Si did nothing and continued to lurk, Li Shimin would not give up if he wanted to come.

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Si decided to bring disaster to the east, so he planned a rebellion, deliberately exposing all the family members who had fallen to Daqin, but in fact these people were all his abandoned sons. Let Li Tang turn the spearhead to all the aristocratic families in Chang'an City.

Under Li Si's operation, 21 big clans in Chang'an City rebelled at the same time after receiving the signal. The number of their rebellion was not too many, but their momentum was so large that everyone in Chang'an City knew about it.

Some families saw a rebellion in the city, and it was so powerful that Li Shimin couldn't come back for a while, thinking that Li Tang was about to die, so they joined the ranks of the rebels in order to protect the family.

However, the family heads who launched the rebellion and the generals who belonged to these families never expected that the people who instigated them to start the rebellion not only failed to cooperate with them in the rebellion, but instead suppressed them with the Tang army in the same city.

　A [-]-word chapter, today's update, and yesterday's guarantee

　　
　
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