The Summoning of the Troubled Times at the End of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 541
Outside Changyuan City, on the open field, there were many banners and flags, and soldiers were lined up in neat formations.

It was as if the entire army formation was filled with a murderous aura!

At this moment, Zheng Jun's soldiers were cheering with high spirits, shouting in unison.

With Wang Shichong leading the battle, Pei Xingyan, with his bravery, asked for orders to challenge the generals of the Tang army.

It's just that Tang Zhujiang was either killed or injured after repeated counterattacks, but Pei Xingyan was unscathed.

This move can be said to have greatly deterred the Tang army and greatly reduced the morale of the Tang army soldiers.

"Pei Shilang, I didn't expect you to grow stronger and stronger, and all the disciples under his command are martial arts masters, and you are invincible!"

"This really makes me envious!"

Seeing that Pei Xingyan shocked the Tang army in the formation with great demeanor, this could not help but attract Wang Shichong's attention.

Immediately, he spoke slowly to Pei Renji's changing and friendly expression beside him.

Pei Renji, after the fall of Li Mi, Pei's father and son were also captured in the rebellion.

Because Wang Shichong valued the abilities of Pei's father and son, he treated each other with courtesy and invited them to make great achievements together.

Among them, Pei Renji was appointed Minister of the Ministry of War, and Pei Xingyan stood side by side with Wang Yanzhang because of his superior martial arts.

The two are respectively the two great generals of Zheng State, the generals of the town.

At this time, Pei Xingyan was in charge of challenging the generals of the Tang army, and Wang Yanzhang was in charge of holding the line, ready to replace Pei Xingyan, who was mentally damaged at any time.

However, Pei Xingyan's martial arts is invincible in Tang camp.

So far, almost no one in the Tang camp can fight against the enemy.

Obviously, in this clash of generals, Zheng Jun clearly won!

Seeing that his side was beaten again and again by the generals, Pei Xingyan was unstoppable, Xu Shiji played his excellent commander and ordered to stick to it and not fight!

Subsequently, the sergeant was ordered to move the defense equipment and materials to the city in accordance with the original deployment, preparing to resist.

Although Li Yuanji looked down on Xu Shiji very much, at this moment he did not dare to raise any objections to the battle.

Because, he fought fiercely with Pei Xingyan among the generals, but he couldn't support a few moves, so he fell into a comprehensive disadvantage.

If it weren't for all the generals in the army trying their best to save him, I'm afraid the fate would have been given here today.

It was because of Pei Xingyan's divine power that Li Yuanji dared not forget to speculate!
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Next, Wang Shichong also recalled Pei Xingyan, and then waved for Quan Jin to attack.

For a while, under the leadership of the generals, Zheng Jun rushed to the Tang camp without fear!

However, Xu Shiji was not mediocre, he had already made complete preparations before, and Sergeant Zheng had not yet arrived in front of the battalion.

"Shhhhh!"

Before Zheng Jun's soldiers approached, all the strong bows and crossbows arranged on the front line of the camp wall tilted down one after another, and shot directly into Zheng Jun.

"Ah, ah!"

There was a miserable cry, and Zheng Jun's formation let out endless wailing, and several soldiers fell to the ground with arrows and died!

However, despite the fierce battle, Zheng Jun's soldiers still rushed to attack the camp in the rain, and no sergeant retreated.

All of a sudden, the two armies clashed fiercely, but it was hindered by Xu Shiji's overall deployment of strategy to firmly guard the camp.

After attacking for several days, there was no success at all.

However, during this period of time, the latest news was sent back, and Wang Ren suffered a crushing defeat.

Not only that, even Yuwen Chengdu also had a life-long battle with Li Yuanba in Zijin Mountain, and they had a fateful duel.

However, the final result was that Yuwen Chengdu was defeated by Li Yuanba's golden hammer and was seriously injured.

However, the fact is that Li Yuanba did not give up, and actually tore Yuwen Chengdu in two, which was extremely bloody.

Hearing the bad news, Wang Shichong quickly snatched the battle report from the scouts, and quickly watched it at a glance.

There was a trace of tension between his brows.

With a quick glance, Wang Shichong has already learned the ins and outs of Wang Renze's defeat.

It turned out that Wang Ren was so aggressive that he led the army to attack Li Shimin with confidence, but he didn't expect that Li Shimin had already made up his mind!

Li Shimin recalled the protection of Changsun Wuji long ago, gathered the rebel army, and strengthened his strength.

Then set up an ambush in Zijin Mountain in the west of Yiyang, and then Wang Ren made a mistake and set up an ambush in Zijin Mountain.

Among them, Li Yuanba fought in person and held Yuwen Chengdu back. As for Wang Renze, Shan Xiongxin was defeated by Liu Hongji and Hou Junji.

Because Zheng Jun was ambushed, the morale of the army was lost, and they panicked. Li Shimin immediately seized the opportunity and led the attack in person.

As Li Shimin personally swung his sword to kill the enemy, almost every Xuanjia army was as fierce as a tiger, bursting out with extremely strong combat power.

After a fight, Zheng's army was defeated, Yu Wencheng was injured in Zijin Mountain, Wang Ren had no choice but to gather the remnants and retreat to Xingtai City.

He only said that Wang Shichong, who had received the news, dared to continue fighting, seeing that his side had not been able to break through the Tang camp for a long time.

Also pretending to be in the name of a truce, slowly retreating like a tide!
Back in the city, Wang Shichong informed the generals of the emergency situation, and then announced the withdrawal of the whole army and returned to defend Luoyang.

In fact, Wang Shichong also made great determination to withdraw his troops to Luoyang this time.

Originally, Wang Shichong wanted to take the opportunity to lead the army to attack when Li Shimin was not in charge of the camp.

Then break through the camp and gain the initiative in the war!

However, Wang Shichong did not expect that Li Shimin would be so knowledgeable and make good use of others, even when Li Yuanji was still in the army.

Overcoming all opinions, surrendered General Xu Shiji as temporary generals, responsible for leading the army to resist their own side.

It should be noted that since the founding of the country by Li Tang, there has been almost no precedent for an outsider to be the first to reconcile.

Almost all the generals guarding various places are relatives of the Li family, not foreign generals!
It's a pity that Wang Shichong underestimated Li Shimin's courage this time, he actually valued Xu Shiji's ability and appointed him as handsome.

If Li Yuanji was the interim commander-in-chief this time, Wang Shichong was [-]% sure that he would be able to defeat Tangying.

But, at this moment, it's too late to say anything!

After the great victory, Li Shimin's military prestige in the hinterland of Zheng State will be further improved.

At that time, the already erratic generals in the state of Zheng will swarm to respond and support Li Shimin.

If this is the case, the situation will be even worse, and Wang Shichong's demise will become a certainty.

Now, Wang Shichong returns to Luoyang urgently and sticks to his land!

Although sticking to Luoyang will cause the main force of the Tang army to drive straight in and isolate Luoyang as an isolated city.

Wang Shichong will completely lose the isolated city and lose the most basic ability to expand.

But it has no choice. With Wang Renze's defeat, retreating to Luo seems to be the only way for Zheng Jun.

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It is only said that in the next few days, Wang Shichong stayed with Wang Yanzhang as a general, and continued to lead the army to fight every day, provoking Tang camp and confusing the Tang army.

But before the night gathered, Pharaoh secretly dispatched military orders to evacuate the main force in batches to Luoyang.

After several days of repetition, Changyuan City was almost empty, and the main force of Zheng Jun had already left.

At this time, Xu Shiji had just received the victory of Zijin Mountain, and after thinking about it, he knew why Zheng Jun would change his previous style in the past few days.

They just shouted and showed their might in front of the camp, but they didn't attack the city!
Xu Shiji also acted vigorously and resolutely. After thinking about the cause and effect, he also summoned the generals and gave orders to pursue them.

In the early morning of the next day, the Tang army suddenly rushed out of the camp, surrounded the broken Wang Yanzhang's troops, and then besieged.

Due to the difference in troop strength, the enemy is outnumbered, even though Wang Yanzhang is super martial arts, he is unstoppable in rushing back and forth in the chaotic army!
But it didn't help, Sergeant Zheng was also killed again and again, and fell in a pool of blood.

However, under the cover of the Jianghuai powerhouse, Wang Yanzhang finally got out of the encirclement with his own force, under the pulley of the scar.

Afterwards, Xu Shiji waved his hand, signaling that his army should not chase after the poor bandits, but seized Changyuan City first.

After nearly several months of confrontation, the Tang army finally captured this fortified city and cleared the obstacles to marching into Luoyang, the eastern capital.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Shiji also took advantage of his strategic vision and opened up the Luoshui waterway first.

Then he led the army to join Li Shimin in order to intimidate Luoyang City and unite with the uprising rebels everywhere.

Afterwards, marched to Luoyang, the capital of Zheng State, and completely wiped out Wang Shichong in Luoyang.

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A few days later, Luoyang City

At this time, Wang Shichong had led the main force back to Luoyang City, and then ordered the generals to control the gates around the city, and strictly guard against it!

Moreover, in order to resist the next large-scale attack of the Tang army, Wang Shichong also recruited people to join the defense of the city.

For a while, the Luoyang defenders reached [-] people, which can be described as menacing.

However, Wang Shichong, who suffered this huge defeat, was depressed and extremely melancholy, drinking and having fun in silence in the palace every day.

In this regard, Wang Mang saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, feeling the misfortune of fate for the emperor's brother.

In fact, Zheng Jun should not have been defeated in this battle. As for the reason why Tang Jun was able to win, it was Li's family background.

Although Wang Shichong at this time was also very brilliant, he established the country and proclaimed himself emperor, sat on the supreme throne of the emperor, had the absolute right to speak, and could be called the ruler of the country.

However, Wang Shichong came from a humble background, but his identity as a Hu merchant in his early years has already been engraved.

As for the Li family, they were the nobles of Guanlong as early as the Northern Dynasties. With the development of time, the Li family was not comparable to Wang Shichong in terms of prestige and strength.

Otherwise, why did Changsun Wuji appeal to the Li family's family background, and the guards of Zheng Jun from all over Luoyang responded one after another.

This is actually the advantage of the Li family's identity!
It can be said that most of Wang Shichong's defeats in this battle were on his hands.

Otherwise, even if Zheng Jun will still be defeated, the situation will not deteriorate to the point where it is now trapped in an isolated city.

Therefore, it was this battle that dealt a heavy blow to Wang Shichong, making him almost devastated!
Nearly half a month later, Pei Renji and his sons united with some old ministers to secretly discuss to support Yang Tong again and overthrow the Wang family.

It's a pity that this matter has not yet been implemented, and the news has leaked.

Hearing the news, Wang Shichong was furious instantly, and then personally ordered Wang Mang to lead the army to round up Pei and his son.

However, because Pei Renji had an old friend in Luoyang, with his help, Pei's father and son took a step ahead of Wang Mang and led his family out of the city.

Afterwards, the Pei family slowly headed west!
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Although Pei's father and son were not captured, Wang Shichong woke up from his drunkenness and began to focus on handling government affairs and stabilizing the situation in the city.

Seeing that Wang Shichong had regained his former fighting spirit, Wang Mang also spoke out, sending envoys to join the world against the king and requesting reinforcements.

Regarding Wang Mang's plan, Wang Shichong also gave instructions and expressed his approval.

Subsequently, Wang Shichong, with Zhu Can as his envoy, went straight to Hebei, persuaded an alliance with Dou Jiande, and asked for reinforcements.

He also used Wang Mang as an envoy to go south with heavy gifts to persuade the Qi army, and went north to support and fight against Li Tang.

And because he was adjacent to Cao Cao, he also sent envoys to persuade Cao Cao to fight Li Tang together.

At this moment, the fate of Zheng Wang's family has entered the moment of life and death, what will be the final result?
ps: The second update, [-] words broke out today, and there will be a chapter with [-] words in a while.

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