Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2231 Break through Xiaoguan and go straight to Chang'an

Chapter 2227: Break through Xiaoguan and go straight to Chang'an

Wei Qing led [-] cavalry and launched a surprise attack on the Sui Kingdom from the west, while Huo Qubing's [-] cavalry also arrived at Xiaoguan.

Due to the division of troops and Wei Qing's first attack on the Sui Dynasty, Huo Qubing's troops exposed their whereabouts in advance.

When he learned that the Qin army had suddenly attacked and was only tens of miles away from Xiaoguan, the guard Li Cunxu was shocked.

Now there are only [-] defenders in the pass, and without any precautions in advance, it will be too late even if the defenses are deployed immediately.

Li Cunxu knows that with the strength of Xiaoguan, he can't resist the wolf-like Qin army for a long time, and once Xiaoguan falls, the entire central and western part of Guan will be under the threat of the Qin army's iron hooves, and the Qin army can even go straight to attack. To the city of Chang'an.

Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Li Cunxu commanded the defenders to fully deploy their defenses and buy as much time as possible, while asking for help from Chang'an, hoping that the reinforcements from the Tang army could arrive as soon as possible, otherwise Xiaoguan's fall would only be a matter of time.

After Li Shimin heard the news about Xiao Guan, he regretted his transfer of troops from Xiao Guan, but it was too late to say anything now.

The importance of Xiaoguan is the same as that of Tongguan and Gaoguan. Once Xiaoguan is contributed, it will be useless for the Tang army to defend Tongguan and Gaoguan. Therefore, for Tang Guo now, there is nothing more important than keeping Xiaoguan.

Li Shimin immediately mobilized the army and sent reinforcements to Xiaoguan, but before the reinforcements left, the attack and defense of Xiaoguan had already begun.

Huo Qubing came too fast, much earlier than Li Cunxu expected. The defense of Xiaoguan City Tower had not been adjusted yet, and the Qin army had already started to attack the city.

This time, the Qin army ran for a long distance, so there were no large siege equipment such as catapults, only ladders, and simple well rails were used to attack the city.

With such leaky siege equipment, it is naturally difficult to capture Xiaoguan, but this time the Qin army caught the enemy by surprise due to mental calculations and unintentional calculations.

When the Tang army in Xiaoguan learned that the Qin army was attacking, basically everyone was in a dazed state. They couldn't believe that Xiaoguan, who was the rear, would be attacked by the Qin army. Is there still a safe place in Tang? ?

After the reaction, the Qin army had already attacked the city, and the offensive was extremely fierce. Not only did the three war gods, such as Gongsun Xuanyuan, Jintai, and Longqi, but also the main general Huo Qubing personally participated in the siege, so that the Tang army was defeated as soon as they fought against each other. I was directly beaten.

After all, Li Cunxu was the commander-in-chief with a command of up to 96. Seeing that his defenders were being beaten and retreating, he quickly mobilized the Qin generals who threw stones and crossbows to set fire.

Although this move restricted senior generals such as Gongsun Xuanyuan, it also greatly dispersed the firepower of the Tang army, gave the middle and low Zeng Qin army an opportunity, and allowed a large number of soldiers to board the tower.

When Li Cunxu saw a large number of Qin soldiers climbing the tower, he decisively led the guards to stop them. He wanted to strangle all the Qin soldiers who climbed the tower, but after killing most of the Qin soldiers, Huo Qubing and Meng Yi boarded the tower one after another. .

Seeing Huo Qubing coming up, Li Cunxu was overjoyed immediately, and hurriedly led people to surround and kill Huo Qubing himself, intending to behead Huo Qubing on the tower. When the Qin army lost its leader, it would definitely retreat, but Meng Yi stopped him on the way.

After Li Cunxu and Meng Yi played against each other for a few moves, they discovered that Meng Yi was helpless in a short period of time. On the other hand, Li Cunzhang and Li Cunxin teamed up to face Huo Qubing.

Li Cunxu and Meng Yi fought for fifteen rounds, not only did not gain the advantage, but was completely suppressed. Just when he secretly thought something was wrong and was about to retreat, he found that Li Cunzhang and Li Cunxin had been beheaded by Huo Qubing successively.

Li Cunxu was shocked immediately, and the connection of moves was stagnated. He was stabbed in the throat by Meng Yi, died on the spot, and then had his head chopped off.

Seeing that Li Cunxu died at the hands of Meng Yi, the morale of the Tang army plummeted and began to show signs of defeat. No matter how Li Cunxian, the deputy general, shouted, he was powerless to turn the tide.

Immediately afterwards, Gongsun Xuanyuan and other generals boarded the tower, and Li Cunxian was shot and killed by Huo Qubing with two shots. The Tang army had no place to resist, and the Qin army took advantage of the situation to completely occupy Xiaoguan.

It only took three hours from the siege to the breakthrough. Tang Jun didn't hold on for a day, and Huo Qubing captured Xiaoguan.

According to statistics after the war, the Qin army suffered [-] casualties, the Tang army killed [-] chickens, and captured [-] prisoners.

The remaining [-] defenders escaped from Xiaoguan and were hunted down by Longqie's cavalry. With no escape, they all chose to surrender in the end.

For Huo Qubing, the biggest benefit of capturing Xiaoguan was not opening the northern gate of the pass, but the [-] shi of grain and grass stored in the pass.

This batch of grain and grass was prepared by the Tang army to defend against the Sui army. Both Li Cunxu and Li Cunxian died in the defense of the city, so they didn't have time to burn it, so that it was all cheaper for the enemy Huo Qubing.

This time Huo Qubing's army traveled lightly and traveled more than [-] miles, and the food and grass they brought were almost enough to eat.

Long before the start of the war, Huo Qubing was ready to use the war to support the war, and even to forcibly collect food from the people.

As Guanzhong is the ninth largest granary in the Jin Dynasty, there must be surplus food in the homes of the people. As long as they invade Guanzhong, the Qin army can collect food on the spot, and there will definitely be no shortage of food and grass.

As for whether the people in Guanzhong are willing?Huo Qubing doesn't care about it. When the national war starts, he doesn't care about the wishes of the people at the bottom, let alone the people of the enemy country.

Long-distance raids and lack of food are the norm. It is not the first time that Huo Qubing has done such a thing of forcibly collecting food from the people of the enemy country. The only difference is that before, he robbed people from other races, but now he wants to get food from the people of the Han people. grab.

For the safety of the soldiers under his command, Huo Qubing didn't mind bearing the infamy, and at worst, he would compensate these common people after the war, whether it was losing money or food or exempting them from taxes.

Huo Qubing was ready to bear the infamy, but he didn't want to send a hundred thousand stones of food and grass to help him conquer Guanzhong.

Now that there are [-] stones of grain and grass in Xiaoguan, Huo Qubing naturally has no need to forcibly collect grain from the people, and the people in Guanzhong have temporarily escaped.

Huo Qubing, who broke Xiaoguan and got a large amount of food and grass, did not stay in Xiaoguan for long, but set off immediately, preparing to go straight to Chang'an.

Huo Qubing ordered Longqi to lead [-] troops to guard Xiaoguan, led Jintai, Gongsun Xuanyuan, Meng Yi, Li Jin, Yuexi and other generals, led [-] cavalry, left Xiaoguan to the east, and marched towards Chang'an at full speed.

After leaving Xiaoguan, Huo Qubing's troops had only marched for half a day before encountering reinforcements from the [-] Tang Army.

The chief general of the Tang army is Li Shimin's brother-in-law and eldest grandson Wuji. In addition, there are also generals such as Gao Siji, Gao Xingzhou, Shi Jingtang, Zhang Xiu, Xu Rong and so on.

(End of this chapter)