Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 822

"It's Duke Changping!"

Li Shuliang, Duke of Changping County, Tang Wang Li Yuan's cousin, previously served as the governor of Jingzhou for Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment. After Jingzhou was captured by Xue Ju, he withdrew to Binzhou to rest and reorganize the defeated army.

At this critical moment, Li Shuliang, who was stationed in Binzhou City, arrived first with [-] cavalry.

He arrived before Xue Rengao.

Although Xue Rengao also received news from Zong Luohu, but the army lacked food and was unable to send troops for a long time.

Li Shuliang led three thousand light cavalry to kill Zong Luohu from behind.

Zong Luohu felt extremely bitter in his heart.

Obviously he has 5 horses, but in the end he just can't beat Li Shimin, who has 2 people. He said before that Li Shimin is a tortoise defending the city.

"Stop them!"

Zong Luohu hurriedly dispatched troops to intercept.

It's just that at this time, although the West Qin army is numerous, they are completely entangled with the Tang army. It is not easy to form an army to intercept this newly arrived cavalry.

Before the soldiers and horses gathered, Li Shuliang had already led the cavalry to kill them.

The new force of three thousand Qingqi broke through Zong Luohu's rear formation at once.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zong Luohu abandoned his army and fled.

This time, the morale of Xue Jun plummeted, and the cavalry retreated and scattered one after another.

Tang Jun's morale was greatly boosted, and they were all brave.

Li Shimin was drenched in blood. Seeing Zong Luohu's defeat, he gritted his teeth and ordered, "Cavalry, follow me, go straight to Xue Rengao's base camp, infantry follow!"

Li Shuliang, who had just joined Li Shimin, hurriedly persuaded him, "Xue Rengao still has 10,000+ soldiers and horses. Although we have won a new victory, our soldiers and horses are exhausted. Don't rush forward."

But Li Shimin didn't listen, not because he didn't want to listen, but because he knew the crisis in Chang'an, he had to decide the winner immediately, he couldn't delay it any longer, and he couldn't afford it anymore.

"I've also considered this, but our army's new victory, it's the time to take advantage of the victory and advance, and the momentum is like a broken bamboo. Please don't say any more."

After speaking, Li Shimin waved his spear and ordered the whole army to pursue him.

Li Shimin didn't even have time to take care of the defeated Zong Luohu's tribe, and let them flee in all directions, sending troops to Xue Rengao's base camp to kill them.

At this time, Xue Rengao had actually retreated to Zheqi City, which was also the new capital of the West Qin Kingdom. Before Xue Ju died of illness here, Xue Rengao succeeded to the throne here.

At that time, he used this as his capital, but he didn't want to return to Qinzhou. Xue Renguo's plan was to use Chang'an as his capital after he invaded Chang'an. Zheqi City was just a temporary transition.

But who would have expected that the offense would be so unsatisfactory.

Xue Rengao has been attacking Changwu City for a long time, but his Zhongshu made Hao Yuan critically ill again.

In addition to the lack of food in the army, Xue Rengao asked Zong Luohu to lead 5 troops to stay under Changwu City temporarily, while he led the main force to retreat slowly.

He was in Zheqian City, hoping to raise food and grass, but Hao Yuan, his confidant, was seriously ill, and Chu Liang also claimed to be ill.Because he roasted alive and shared the food, as a result, there were not many civil servants in the Western Qin Dynasty, and it became more and more difficult to raise and supply logistics.

When Zong Luohu urgently reported that Li Shimin could no longer bear to go out of the city to fight, but Xue Rengao could no longer send troops because of lack of food.

Xue Rengao was still losing his temper in the city of Zheqian to urge food, but it was reported that the Tang army had already killed the city.

Xue Rengao, who heard that Zong Luohu was defeated, was furious, and led the soldiers and horses in the city out of the city to form an array.

under the city.

More than [-] Qin troops lined up.

However, the number of Tang troops who came from afar was less than [-].

Xue Rengao vowed to capture Li Shimin alive, and then roasted and ate him.

At this moment.

Chu Liang and his son Chu Suiliang, the provincial servant of the Western Qin sect, led dozens of Western Qin civil servants, and a dozen generals, and ran to the opposite side on horseback before the battle.

Before he understood what happened, Chu Liang had already bowed down to Li Shimin.

They actually turned against each other and surrendered to the Tang army.

The prime minister surrendered to the enemy before the battle.

Xue Rengao almost spat out a mouthful of blood, but it wasn't over yet.

In the 10,000+ army formation that stretched for more than ten miles, people started to leave the formation and run to the opposite side.

Unstoppable, unstoppable.

There are even entire columns of soldiers running to the opposite side.

Even Li Shimin didn't expect this result.

"Marshal, Xue Rengao is tyrannical and cruel. He is definitely not a master. We were only coerced by him before, and we had no choice but to cling to him. Now we finally have the opportunity to leave."

Li Shimin was really elated, and hurriedly got off his horse and helped Chu Liang, his son and others up, "I want to give up the darkness and turn to the light, so I can't ask for it."

It took only half a day.

Of Xue Rengao's 10,000+ army, one third surrendered to the enemy.

They did this mainly because Zheqian City had run out of food, and many soldiers had been hungry for several days, and the emperor still had hungry soldiers.

In addition, Xue Rengao was indeed cruel, not only did he like to kill prisoners, but he often even killed his own people.For example, robbing the wives of the generals under his command, and castrating the civil officials who offended him, and saying that he should follow the example of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Tai Shigong. For such a moody, cruel and heartless emperor, when he gained power, everyone was still afraid and dared not do anything. , but once the current situation is like this, everyone will surrender to the enemy unceremoniously.

There is no counterattack before the battle, it is because everyone's defection to the enemy has not been connected in series.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Xue Rengao quickly withdrew his troops and returned to the city. If this continues, everyone will run away.

But the closing of the city gate could not stop the morale from shaking.

Later, the Tang Army infantry arrived, and more than 5 people actually came.

It turns out that the Binzhou infantry behind Li Shuliang also arrived. At this time, many prisoners who were defeated in Qianshuiyuan also joined the Tang army and turned back to attack Qicheng.

The Tang army surrounded Zheqi City.

A tragic siege and defense battle is about to begin.

But what surprised Tang Jun was that the city gate was closed tightly, but there were soldiers on the city who put ropes and climbed down to surrender.

The scene was exceptionally spectacular.

Sixty thousand Tang troops under the city besieged the city.

And there were 10,000+ Western Qin troops in the city.

But the Western Qin army guarding the city kept coming down from the city to surrender.

The city gate was guarded by Xue Rengao's confidants, and the soldiers came down from the city by rope.

Later, even Xue Rengao's confidants who guarded the city knew that there was nothing to do, so they opened the city and surrendered.

at dusk.

Xue Rengao was almost alone.

Xue Rengao had no choice but to surrender himself.

He couldn't run even if he wanted to, because the Tang army outside the city had swelled to [-] people, half of which were originally his West Qin army, and Zheqi City had been besieged like an iron barrel.

In desperation, Xue Rengao could only beg for surrender.

Li Shimin accepted Xue Rengao's request to surrender, and then ordered all the Western Qin troops to be incorporated into the army.

"Call all the generals to discuss!"

"I have an important announcement to make."

Sitting in the temporary palace of Xue's family in Zheqian City, Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief.Xue Rengao solved it, and finally solved the threat from the Western Front.

Xue Rengao surrendered and broke Zheqi City. Liu Wenjing, Chai Shao and other eight generals who were captured in the first Qianshuiyuan defeat were also rescued.

After meeting, Li Shimin didn't have time to chat with them.

"This commander has decided that General Chai Shao and General Li Shuliang will stay in Jingzhou and be responsible for recruiting troops from the Western Qin Dynasty and taking advantage of the momentum to attack the land of Longyou."

Li Shimin left them [-] Tang troops.

"This commander and General Liu Wenjing will immediately lead [-] troops and [-] Longqiang cavalry back to Guanzhong."

Liu Wenjing and others couldn't understand why Li Shimin was in such a hurry to go back. This is a good time to take advantage of the situation and take all the land of West Qin in one fell swoop. This is a great achievement.

At this time, Li Shimin took out Li Yuan's letter from his arms and showed it to the public.

"Guanzhong is in danger, we must rush back to reinforce Tongguan and defend Chang'an!"

All the generals exclaimed, and even turned pale with fright!
(End of this chapter)