Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 908 Heroes
Li Daozong overlooked a key.

This negligence made Xiao Guan very precarious.

He only said that Luo Siye used 50 troops to fight from Dingxiang to Lingwu, and then to attack Longyou. The Xuanwu elite must have suffered a lot of casualties, and it would be good to have [-] left. Now [-] million people are gathered, which is obviously a mob.

But he didn't expect that among the hundreds of thousands of mobs in Siye, there are actually quite a few who can really fight.It can be said that as Luo Cheng defeated the Turkic Jieli Khan in the north, Li Yuan lost another [-] soldiers and horses in Dingxiang. Li Tang was not optimistic about it, they all wanted to beat the dog in the water, and then use it as a certificate of honor to fight for a position in the new court.

What's more, Siye is also an experienced veteran. After his simple reorganization, the effect is still good.At this time, the elite government soldiers took the lead, and this good steel was used on the blade. This 40-meter-long sword is still extremely sharp.

In contrast.

The defenders at Xiaoguan were neither the elite soldiers that Li Yuan brought back from Jiangdu, nor the disciples of Guanlong recruited later in Guanzhong, nor the soldiers from Longyou who surrendered after defeating the Xue family. The current guards of Xiaoguan are just a group of A young man called up urgently nearby.

Lack of armor, poor weapons, not to mention lack of training, not enough good officers.

Although Li Daozong defended Xiaoguan when Siye tentatively attacked Xiaoguan before, it was just that Siye didn't really attack by force, so he went to attack Longyou instead.

Looking back now, he shot with anger again, but Li Daozu couldn't be lucky.

In fact, Li Daozong also asked Chang'an for help countless times, but now Li Yuan has no troops to reinforce Xiao Guan.

Li Yuan now only has Guanzhong, the land of Bashu that he had previously attached to, and now the Hanzhong area is captured by the Qin army. Although Shuzhong is still in the Tang Dynasty in name, it has been cut off, and money, food, soldiers and horses cannot come.

Wuguan fell early, and the Qin army went straight to Lantian Pass.

The Qin army had already blocked Sanguan, not to mention the Qin army outside Puban and Tongguan.

Under such circumstances, reinforcements are needed everywhere, and the remaining 10 people in Guanzhong cannot move anywhere.Li Yuan could only send Li Daozong a lot of vacant official positions to tell him to find a way to recruit soldiers.

What can Li Daozong do.

In the end, he could only find the gentry tyrants from the nearby states, and then give them the report, and let them recruit soldiers and horses.

He appointed a local tyrant as a military general, and then asked him to find a way to recruit several regiment generals, and the regiment generals recruited several battalion captains through their personal connections.

The captain of the battalion will go to recruit the team leader himself.

The head of the team went back to the hometown to recruit five fire chiefs, and the fire chiefs each pulled nine people over.

Through this method of subcontracting layer by layer, Li Daozong allowed Xiao Guan to have more than 2 horses in a short period of time.

Xiao Guan has two armies under his jurisdiction, but they are basically infantry, and more than [-]% of them are recruits.

Although these soldiers are all relatives from the same country, they are relatively united, but no matter how united they are, they are still recruits. The equipment, training, and experience of the officers are not enough. How to fight?

Under Xiaoguan City.

Siye took off his shirt, naked to the waist, and stood under the handsome flag to beat the drums to cheer.

The sound of drums shook the ground, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

Duan Zhixuan even advanced his general flag to a distance of [-] steps under Xiaoguan City.

The Qin army's style of play is extremely simple, taking advantage of the advantages of numbers, especially the advantages of bows and crossbows, to cover the city clusters with bows and crossbows.

Then cover the more elite Xuanwu first ascend the pawn ladder to tackle key problems.

There is almost no tactical deployment, just bullying the young soldiers and bullying the recruits.

"Send the arrow, release the arrow!"

Li Daozong was shot in the face by a stream arrow, which entered from the left cheek and exited from the right cheek, but he refused to go down to the city.

"Prince, your injury!"

"Look for a military doctor!" Li Daozong reluctantly said.

A Chinese military doctor came over under the cover of the shields of several Tang soldiers with a medicine box on his back.

"Pull out the arrow for me."

The military doctor looked at it and said, "Your Majesty, this place is too chaotic and dangerous, please go down to the city and draw your arrows to heal your wounds."

"Pull it here!"

Li Daozong gritted his teeth as he looked at the precarious Guancheng.

The military doctor shook his head, how could he move his hand in such a chaotic battlefield.

"Your Majesty, although the arrow injury is not particularly serious, it is not easy to deal with. Please come down to the city, Your Majesty."

Li Daozong drew his sword and directly chopped off the military doctor.

"Change to another military doctor."

Another military doctor was called, and the man was so frightened that his hands and feet trembled, and he was completely unable to operate here. As a result, Li Daozong chopped him down with another sword.

"Change another one!"

Seeing that the corpses of the first two companions were still on the ground, the third military doctor gritted his teeth and fetched arrows for him.His hands and feet were shaking so badly that Li Daozong's face was covered with blood, but Li Daozong didn't even hum, and even kept commanding and dispatching defenses.

After taking the arrow, the military doctor also collapsed on the ground.

Li Daozong ignored the blood on his body and continued to step forward to command.

But looking around, the defenders are already very sparse.

"My lord, Gu An has escaped."

Gu An was one of the two generals appointed by Li Daozong. He was the direct son of the Gu family of the Pingliang family.

Unexpectedly, this person usually slaps his chest and speaks loudly, but at a critical moment, he would run away with diarrhea.

As soon as Gu An ran away, the generals of the regiment he recruited also ran away, and the soldiers below followed suit.

This is almost worse.

"Hurry up and make up for the defense over there!" Li Daozong roared.

But it was too late, as soon as Gu An's men withdrew, that part of the pass was empty, and the Qin army's first climber below immediately climbed the ladder and jumped to the top of the city.

When Li Daozong arrived with his sword in hand, hundreds of warriors from the Qin army had already climbed to the top of the city, and a red flag with the characters of Qin was also planted on the top of the city.

Those Qin soldiers who jumped up to the pass city, they were dressed in iron armor, with a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, gathered together in threes and fives, like pieces of fish scales, guarding the ladder behind them tightly.

More Qin troops continued to climb to the top of the city.

Although Li Daozong rushed over desperately, he still couldn't drive them off the wall.

A team of crossbows also boarded the top of the city. They leaped up to the top of the city and assembled quickly. Then rows of crossbow nails shot over, clearing a large open space in front of them.

Li Daozong held his sword high, but a row of crossbows came over.

"Be careful, king!"

Several personal soldiers rushed forward to block the arrows for him, and more arrows came, but Li Daozong was still shot to the ground.

"Shoot Li Daozong!"

The crossbowmen of the Qin army shouted excitedly.

This call made Qin Jun cheered in unison.

When Tang Jun in the distance heard this sound, he almost collapsed on the side of the avalanche.

The generals will have no fighting spirit, and the soldiers will have no morale.

Gu An's fleeing in front of the battle only put a section of Guancheng in danger, but Li Daozong's fall made the remaining defenders no longer able to hold on.

Like an avalanche, the army is defeated like a mountain.

Xiaoguan, the gateway to the northwest of Guanzhong guarded by more than [-] Tang troops, was breached by Luo Siye without even defending it for a day!

Gu An personally opened the north gate of Xiaoguan, attracting countless Qin troops to pour in like a tide!
(End of this chapter)