Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 424 Attack of the Beiwei Army

Chapter [-] Beiwei Army Attacks
Hearing the news of Shan Xiongxin's suicide, Wang Ren was completely silent in the Chinese military camp.The bravery of Shan Tong and Shan Xiongxin is obvious to all.None of the people present were unconvinced by Shan Xiong.Wang Ren sat on the handsome chair, speechless for a long time, as if like a statue.Wang Renze had nothing but a wry smile in his heart.

If Shan Xiongxin did not die, he could still put the responsibility for the defeat on Shan Xiongxin, and shirk his own responsibility completely by the way, but now it is good, Shan Xiongxin is dead, no matter how shameless he is, he will not Perhaps the responsibility for the defeat was pushed to Shan Xiongxin.

However, the loss of generals and the loss of more than [-] soldiers and horses must be borne by someone.Even though Wang Shichong can be lenient, how he can defend Hangu Pass is still a very difficult problem.

When the generals had never seen Chen Ying, they thought that Chen Ying had just gained a false reputation and was just lucky.After the battle in the northern plateau of Hangu Road, they all saw Chen Ying's methods.Especially the kind of iron man who can't be cut by a knife or shot down by an arrow, which makes them feel extremely frustrated and hopeless.

The enemy's armor is too thick and strong, no matter what method they use, they can't deal an effective blow to them, but they are lucky, the long knife in their hands will die if they touch it, and they will die if they touch it, even after two days. They were still trembling unconsciously in their hearts at that horrific scene.

The cavalry of the Tang army formed a dense cavalry wall, crushing them again and again, directly smashing their formation until the whole army collapsed, making them feel a long-lost sense of powerlessness.From Wang Renze down, all the generals breathed heavily, frustrated by this hopeless battle, and worried about their unknown fate.

At this moment, Cui Binyou plucked up his courage and said, "Duke Ming, the terrain on the southern plateau is flat. Now that the Tang army has won a new victory, if they attack us with the power of victory, we have to guard against it!"

Wang Renze had a strange look on his face, and looked at Cui Binyou and the generals playfully: "What do you mean?"

Cui Binyou said: "Now that the Tang army is fighting for victory in the field, they will definitely attack Hangu Pass all the way along the northern plateau. At that time, they will lead the war to the Hangu Pass city. This will be the most passive situation. The best defense, It's still an attack."

"Actively attack? How to attack? How to attack? Where to attack? Wang Renze's voice was full of exhaustion and helplessness: "Ambush the Tang army is meaningless. Withdraw the troops to Hangu Pass. Let's rely on Hangu Pass. Show it off with Tang Jun. "

It is indeed meaningless. Originally, Wang Renze wanted to take advantage of Tang Jun's ignorance that the news of their dispatch had been leaked, and make full use of the favorable terrain of Hangu Pass to ambush Tang Jun, causing Tang Jun to suffer a big loss.If Wang Renze's move is against other Tang soldiers, it might be successful.

However, he happened to meet a freak like Chen Ying.From the beginning to the end, Chen Ying never thought of going directly from Hangu Road to Hangu Pass, but along the plateaus on both sides of Hangu Road, all the way to Hangu Pass.If it was in the past, the southern plateau and the thick mulberry plateau were densely covered with wild mulberry trees or bushes, and there was no way to go to the top of the plateau. It would be impossible for Chen Ying to march from the top of the plateau.However, all the mulberry trees on the southern plateau and Chousang plateau were cut down by the people of Guanzhong, and the entire plateau became bare. This also completely defeated Wang Renze's ambush plan.

The field battle with real swords and guns was in Tang Jun's arms.Now Wang Renze's heavy tomahawk battalion has been wiped out, its strength has been greatly reduced, and its equipment has also fallen behind the Tang army. Even supplies are not as convenient as the Tang army.They need to be transported from Hangu Pass to the plateau of more than [-] miles, while the Tang army only needs to travel [-] to [-] miles from Tong to the plateau. The supply distance is shortened and the loss is light. It is an inevitable choice to withdraw to Hangu Pass.

"We can't defend passively, we must take the initiative to attack!" Cui Binyou gestured on the map: "Taking advantage of the freezing of the Yellow River, we can bypass Tongguan along the river and directly attack Guanzhong."

Wang Ren said with a wry smile: "How many troops can we mobilize to attack Guanzhong? If the number is small, we will undoubtedly die. If the number is too large, if we are surrounded by the Tang army."

Cui Binyou was momentarily at a loss for words.

At this moment, a courier came in a hurry, and the courier took a secret letter with a red seal and handed it to Wang Renze.

Wang Renze didn't accept the secret letter, but directly said: "I won't read it, tell me, tell me, is there any bad news?"

The messenger said: "Li Shimin, the king of Qin in the Tang Dynasty, sent troops. Li Shimin, the king of Qin in the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and Qu Tutong, the minister of the Ministry of War, led the left and right Wuhou guards, the left and right Xiao cavalry guards, and the left and right leading guards. The left and right guards had a total of eight guards and a total of [-] elite soldiers, and left Chang'an. , all the way to the east!"

Wang Ren was taken aback for a moment, then took the secret letter, opened the secret letter inside, and read every word carefully.After a long time, Wang Renze let out a long sigh, and said leisurely: "It seems that the Central Plains will also find earth-shaking changes."

In fact, as Wang Shichong said, Li Tang originally planned to deal with Wang Shichong after spring plowing, in order to avenge Wang Shichong's attack on Li Tang Yinzhou.However, under the influence of Chen Ying, a butterfly from another world, the Li and Tang courts had completely different views on Wang Shichong's war.

In Li Yuan's view, the generals under Wang Shichong's command are mediocre.

Chen Ying wrote clearly in the battle report that Chen Ying encountered Wang Renze's ambush on the day he dispatched troops, relied on the soldiers of the three armies, fought desperately, repelled Wang Renze, beheaded his general Guo Qing, captured his champion general Shan Xiongxin, Captain Xiaoqi Gao Feiyang, Zhang Anshi and more than [-] people.

This is not the result obtained in a normal field situation, but in the case of ambush.There are many examples of a [-] army being ambushed by thousands of soldiers, and the entire army was defeated. Chen Ying, with more than [-] troops, was ambushed by Wang Renze's [-] elite soldiers, not only killing the enemy, He also won a big victory, so there is only one result. Zheng Jun's so-called elite soldiers are a group of scum who are not on the stage.

Since Wang Shichong is so weak, there is nothing to be polite about.If things go well, Wang Shichong can be settled within two months, and the territory of [-] counties and nearly one million people in the twelve counties of the Central Plains under Wang Shichong's rule will be obtained. The Tang Dynasty will not delay the spring plowing in the third year of Wude.

If the war goes well and the land of the Central Plains is obtained, and they go down the Hanjiang River, they can attack Xiao Mian with Li Xiaogong and Li Jing of Bashu, and obtain the rich and fertile Hanxiang Plain. After that, the Tang Dynasty will have no enemies, and the unification of the world is just around the corner.

On the third day of the first lunar month of the third year of Wude, before the civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty opened their offices, Li Shimin led an army of [-] troops to Tongguan with his retrained Xuanjia cavalry, which was based on Zhai Changsun's strategy. .Li Shimin believed that his Xuanjia cavalry would not be weaker than Chen Ying's Dingyuan cavalry, and would definitely become the king of cavalry in the world.

The left and right Wuhou guards, the left and right Xiao cavalry guards, the left and right leading army guards, the eight left and right guards, and 87 soldiers from Zhechongfu.Li Shimin was very confident, and he was not afraid that Wang Shichong would know the news in advance. His intention was to tell Wang Shichong: Yeye is coming to beat you, wash your neck and wait.

After receiving the news that Li Shimin's [-] troops had come out of Tongguan to attack Guanzhong, Wang Ren didn't want to stay any longer. Facing Chen Ying, he still had the strength to parry, but Li Shimin's [-] elite soldiers had no chance at all.Wang Ren ordered to retreat, however, he took it for granted.

The road to retreat is destined to not be smooth sailing.

On the snow-covered ice, the army was not moving fast.Mianmian forcibly walked for about forty miles, and the whole army was in great distress.Finally, Wang Renze's trilogy came to Taichu Palace. It is said that this is where Lao Tzu rode a bull into Hangu Pass, where he wrote a book and wrote a huge volume of "Tao Te Ching".

The Taichu Palace covers an area of ​​more than ten acres and is a palace-style building complex.On the ridge of the hall and the eaves of the gables, there are unicorns, lions, tigers, chickens, dogs and other rare birds and animals, both in shape and spirit.The flying beams on the roof of the hall are vertical and horizontal, and the rafters and purlins are uneven. Although the roof truss is complex, it has its own rules. The hall is wide and there are no pillars in the middle.

Wang Ren occupied this Taoist temple unceremoniously, and placed the commander's tent in the Taichu Palace, while his soldiers were stationed near the Taichu Palace.

As the third watch approached, dark clouds piled up in the sky.The night was very dark, but also very quiet. Since it was not far from Hangu Pass at this time, and there was no sign of Chen Ying leading the pursuit, Zheng Jun was very relaxed, leaving some poor unlucky people outside the camp to fight against the enemy. Except for the cold wind acting as a sentinel, everyone else fell asleep and slept soundly.

All the soldiers of the Beiwei army took off all the things that could make sounds on their bodies. In order to prevent accidental slipping and making sounds, Liu Tong also ordered all the soldiers to bite small wooden sticks.

It was about a stone's throw away from Zheng Jun's camp, and the Zheng Jun sentry did not find the Beiwei Army.Liu Tong looked at the flickering candles in the Taichu Palace halfway up the mountain, and thought to himself: "It depends on this battle, whether it is life or death."

Liu Tong took a deep breath, and whispered to Xun Xiang beside him, "Did you see the bright hall there?"

Looking at Zheng Jun's camp, although there are lights in Zheng Jun's camp, they are arranged in dots. The people who set up the camp are obviously proficient in the art of war. Looking from the outside, most of the tents in the camp are hidden in the dark In the middle, it makes people unable to see the truth and reality inside, so the brightly lit Taichu Palace in the middle is very obvious.

Liu Tongdao: "It's either where Wang Renze's commander-in-chief is, or it's a trap, or it's a trick, or it's death..."

Xunxiang said: "I'll come!"

Liu Tong raised his horizontal saber and slashed forward, shouting loudly: "Back to the Wei army, attack!"

The thick and desolate horn sounded suddenly in the dark night, and more than [-] soldiers from the four regiments of the Beiwei Army immediately launched an attack from all directions outside the Taichu Palace.

More than 1000 and two hundred people from the Beiwei Army roared loudly together. It sounded like a herd of beasts howling at night in the dark night, which shocked countless Zheng Jun soldiers from their dreams to nightmares, and suddenly woke up.

Most of the generals and soldiers of the Zheng army slept together in their clothes, and ran out in a mess. The soldiers would not be able to find the generals, and the soldiers would not be found. How could there be time at this time?Tang Jun has already broken out of the camp.Of course, the most important thing is that the generals of the Zheng army were too exhausted. The weather was cold and it was not easy to cut wood. They didn't even set up a simple camp to prevent wild animals.

On the contrary, it is more convenient for the soldiers of the Beiwei army to rush in. The soldiers of the Beiwei army in all directions, all wanting to compete for the first victory of beheading the general and capturing the flag, have been plundering towards the Taichu Palace, burning tents when they see them, and stabbing people when they see them. , Non-stop, non-stop soldiers, this Zheng Jun camp has been washed into a sieve, and fires broke out everywhere in the camp.

Wang Renze's remnant army at this time still has more than [-] people, and the strength of this big camp is thirteen times that of the Beiwei army.However, at this time, most of them had no time to organize and accumulate. Only a thousand guards near Taichu Palace and more than [-] people from the Zhengxi Rotation Department gathered together. The others were in chaos. Just hack and kill.

Xun Xiang was originally Yu Chigong's deputy general, but now Yu Chigong has been appointed by Chen Ying as the left guard, and has become a senior general in the East Palace, one of the six leaders.His status was second only to Chen Ying, Xue Wanche, Li Shiji, Yang Wenqian and Feng Li, and he became the sixth general of the Eastern Palace. Although he had also become a senior general of the fourth rank at this time, the gap with Yu Chigong was getting farther and farther.

Xun Xiang was also secretly worried, but fortunately Chen Ying was a very fair person, as long as he made meritorious service, Chen Ying would not worry about Chen Ying taking his credit for it.Xun Xiang led his troops into the formation of the Zheng army. These soldiers of the Beiwei army were selected by Chen Ying from the whole army. Coordination and response are the most sensitive.

Seeing that Xunxiang was so brave, the soldiers of the Beiwei army were all desperate.

At this time, the generals of the Zheng army in the camp were like sitting on a small boat, rushing ups and downs in the turbulent waves. In other words, when a person is in the army, it is impossible to correctly grasp the overall situation of the battlefield with the naked eye, but must rely on experience and intuition to judge.

Wang Renze has rich experience, and he can tell at a glance that although the Tang army is shouting, it has insufficient troops.It was not the soldiers of the Tang army who caused the most casualties, but their own people who hacked and killed indiscriminately.

Wang Renze ordered angrily: "Those who dare to lie will be killed!"

"Whoever dares to make noise will be killed!"

"Those who dare to disrupt the army will be killed!"

At the critical moment, Wang Ren issued a brutal and bloody three-kill military order, which brought the chaotic situation in the military camp under control in a very short period of time.Seeing that the generals of the Zheng army had gradually stabilized, Liu Tong knew that he had lost the chance to kill the general and capture the flag, so he just ordered to retreat.

It was finally dawn, near the camp of the Taichu Palace, there was smoke rising everywhere, looking at the camp full of burned tents, ashes of food and grass, and densely packed corpses, Wang Renze's expression changed. It was as black as coke.

"Have the statistics come out?"

"Reporting to the General, the results have already come out. During the Tang army's attack on the camp last night, a total of 350 people from our army were killed, more than [-] people were injured, and more than [-] people were missing!"

Hearing this news, Wang Renze's eyes darkened and he almost fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)