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Chapter 1475 Siege the city and call for reinforcements
Li Sheng stood in front of the sand table and used small flags to simulate the marching route of the Guo family's army. He knew from a strategic point of view that the Guo family would be destroyed, and he also knew that the Guo family's newly recruited army was vulnerable, but he still took it very seriously.

He thought that the Guo family would attack Chengdu from the north to resolve the crisis in Zizhou, but he soon found that he was overthinking. The Guo family army showed no signs of moving north, but instead headed directly west to attack Zizhou.

When the Guo family's army was still a hundred miles away from Panshi County, Li Sheng resolutely issued an ultimatum to Panshi County. In a blink of an eye, he captured the county and escorted all the members of the Yang family to Chengdu. The army was disbanded. As for the handling of officials, it was the business of the Ministry of Personnel. At most, he could guarantee the innocence of the governor Xu Huining. As for whether he could keep his official position, that was another matter.

Under the current situation, it is a blessing for Guo Huaiyan's son-in-law to be able to serve the people safely.

It took only one hour to resolve Panshi County, and Li Sheng began to prepare to deal with Guo Qianren's army.

At present, the Guo family army is located in Pukang County, Puzhou, due east, about a hundred miles away from Panshi County. If nothing unexpected happens, they will rush all the way to Panshi County along the current official road.

Li Sheng found another small path to the north of the official road. He immediately said to General Guan Ning: "General Guan, you can lead 10,000 troops through the small path, go around the enemy's back and cut off their retreat!"

"I humbly obey my orders!"

Guan Ning took the order and left in a hurry.

Li Sheng smiled and said to his deputy general Zhao Ting'an, "General Zhao, please perform a battle of attack and defense to make the enemy think that we are still attacking the city!"

Everyone laughed, and Zhao Ting'an bowed and said, "Ten thousand troops are enough for me, and I guarantee that the attack and defense performance will be earth-shattering."

Li Sheng gave Zhao Ting'an 10,000 troops, and he himself led 30,000 cavalry and quietly marched south under the cover of night.

Although the generals believed that it was unnecessary to use a butcher knife to deal with the little chicken of the Guo family, Li Sheng's style was never to underestimate the enemy and to prepare for and take every war seriously.

The next morning, Panshi started another offensive and defensive battle. The city gates were closed, drums beat like thunder from both inside and outside the city, shouts of killing shook the sky, thick smoke billowed under the city walls, and arrows rained down at the top of the city walls. Most of them flew over the top of the city walls and shot into the city. The city was covered with thick sand, and the arrows were stuck in the sand with almost no damage. A batch of them were recovered by the soldiers after a while.

The attack and defense performance was so lifelike that it indeed fooled the spies sent by Guo Qianren to investigate. Of course, the spies did not dare to get close. If they did, they would still find clues that the Tang army camp was almost empty.

But it was indistinguishable from a distance. It felt like the Tang army had about 30,000 soldiers, and Zhao Ting'an had indeed managed to create the momentum of an army of 30,000 soldiers.

At this time, Guo Qianren's army had entered Zizhou, about seventy miles away from Panshi County. It was getting dark, and the army rested on the spot.

Guo Qianren was very vigilant and deployed a large number of spies around. Once he found anything abnormal, he would immediately notify the army.

Guo Qianren was unwilling to rescue Panshi County from the bottom of his heart, but he had to give an explanation to the head of the family, so as long as he found anything unusual, he would have an excuse to immediately withdraw his troops and retreat back to Hezhou.

However, nothing abnormal has been found so far. At three o'clock in the morning, the spies from Panshi County came back, and Guo Qianren hurriedly got up to meet the spies.

"General, the siege is still going on, but the enemy doesn't seem to be carrying heavy siege weapons. The siege seems to be more difficult. They mainly rely on fire attacks and arrows."

"how many people?"

"About 30,000 people!"

Guo Qianren pondered for a moment. This number was slightly different from the 50,000 Tang troops they had under their command, but after thinking about it carefully, there was no problem.

Li Sheng must leave troops to defend Chengdu, and it cannot be exactly 30,000. It should be more than 30,000. In fact, it is about the same, leaving about 15,000 people to defend Chengdu.

After realizing this, Guo Qianren felt a little relieved.

Before dawn the next day, Guo's army set out again.

After confirming that the Tang army was still attacking the city, Guo Qianren no longer had any worries and ordered the army to advance at full speed.

He had a new idea. If they could get to Panshi County in time and attack the Tang army from behind, the 20,000 Yang family troops in the county would then attack from the front. With the attack from both inside and outside, the 30,000 Tang army would inevitably be defeated.

If they can win this battle, they will have the upper hand in the entire Bashu situation. Many of us are sometimes a little self-righteous, which is a common problem for everyone. To put it bluntly, we consider problems from our own perspective. The difficulties we may encounter will unconsciously lower our valuations, and we always feel that we can successfully complete the plan.

But in the end we all say that plans cannot keep up with changes, which actually means we are overthinking the difficulties.

The same went for Guo Qianren. He even thought of the details of the nighttime sneak attack on the Tang army. Thinking of the Tang army's hasty defeat and defeat, he couldn't help but get excited.

Nearing noon, the soldiers were tired and exhausted, and the team stretched to nearly twenty miles. In this situation, they would usually stop to rest, and the team would slowly gather together.

Guo Qianren was a little worried when he saw that the team was too long, so he ordered, "Rest where you are!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a torrent of arrows suddenly shot out from the woods on the roadside. The arrows emitted green smoke and exploded after hitting the ground. The soldiers on the official road were caught off guard and screamed in pain.

The soldiers were in chaos, and many of them were hit by the iron particles, and they were howling like ghosts. However, the arrow mines used by the Tang army to deal with the Han soldiers were non-toxic, and the iron particles were not poisoned, so being hit was not a big problem. However, the psychological damage to the soldiers was huge, and many of them completely collapsed after being hit by the iron particles.

Then a low horn sounded in the woods, "Woo--"

The overwhelming Tang cavalry rushed out of the woods and attacked the enemy troops on the official road.

In fact, three armies of the Tang army with 10,000 cavalrymen launched an attack simultaneously on an official road more than 20 miles long, cutting the 50,000 enemy troops into three sections. The violent explosion was unheard of for these soldiers, and exhaustion and fear filled the hearts of every soldier.

When the overwhelming cavalry rushed out like the sky was collapsing and the earth was breaking, many soldiers were scared to death. They screamed and turned around to run for their lives.

No matter marching or fighting, the army has a special feature. Soldiers are generally not allowed to leave the official road. The official road is a kind of control. Under the supervision of generals, soldiers dare not escape easily. But once they leave the official road, it means out of control.

Especially when the army was defeated, almost all the soldiers who left the official road and fled into the wilderness were running back home and would not go back to die. They could share the wealth if they won the battle, but they could forget about sharing the risks if they lost the battle.

Those soldiers who could be gathered were basically those who did not leave the official road, which meant that they were still orderly and would not flee back home, or they were inexperienced and were intercepted by the generals responsible for gathering the defeated soldiers.

The 50,000 soldiers were recruited less than half a month ago. They had never seen such a bloody massacre before and were so frightened that they fled in all directions.

The Tang army did not chase them. As long as they left the official road, they would basically let them go, unless they were generals. Generally, the Tang army would not let the enemy generals go. Generals usually have cohesion and will reunite the soldiers.
Guo Qianren had more than twenty personal soldiers around him, but they were surrounded by hundreds of Tang cavalry. Soon, his personal soldiers fell off their horses one after another, leaving only Guo Qianren. Guo Qianren roared and swung his sword to kill outside.

Dozens of spears stabbed at him from all directions. Guo Qianren screamed in agony as dozens of spears pierced his body. He died on the spot and fell off his horse.

The ambush was over in less than half an hour. The Tang army killed thousands of people, including more than 20 generals including Guo Qianren. Many soldiers were so scared that their legs went limp and they could not run at all. They had to kneel down and surrender. Countless people surrendered at one time, and the Tang army stopped chasing the fleeing soldiers and let them escape. Li Sheng ordered not to pursue them anymore. These were all Han farmers who volunteered to join the army out of confusion. Once they realized the danger to their lives, no one would work for the Guo family anymore. It was the intention of Emperor Li Ye to let them go home and farm.

Thousands of soldiers in the rear army escaped the ambush of the Tang army and turned around to flee, but he was ultimately unable to escape the interception of 10,000 Tang soldiers.

After running for only a dozen miles, General Guan Ning led 10,000 troops to charge out, blocking the soldiers' path like a big net. Guan Ning waved his gun and shouted, "If you want to live, why don't you kneel down and surrender!"

The soldiers suddenly woke up as if from a dream and knelt down to surrender. Guan Ning ordered the soldiers to confiscate their weapons and escort them back.

Li Sheng did not expect that the Guo family army would be so vulnerable. Within more than half an hour, the 50,000-strong army was completely wiped out.

Soon, Li Sheng obtained accurate intelligence that these 50,000 soldiers were newly recruited farmers, and many of them did not even know how to use a crossbow, but were dragged onto the battlefield. No wonder their performance was so poor. The 20,000 truly well-trained servants were left behind in Hechuan County.

Li Sheng ordered the soldiers to take off their armor, gave them a full meal, and then released them to go home.

By this time, the bodies of thousands of the fallen had been cremated and buried, and the battlefield had been cleared.

After resting for a long time, Li Sheng continued to lead an army of 50,000 to attack Hechuan County.

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