Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 597
For An Qingxu, he also fell into a dilemma.

On the one hand, Luoyang City was guarded by Zhang Xun, a well-known city defense expert in the Tang Dynasty. When the puppet Yan court besieged Suiyang, it was Zhang Xun who defended this key city. In the end, An Qingxu even escaped from Luoyang. It also has an inseparable relationship with Zhang Xun.

If Zhang Xun hadn't guarded Suiyang to the death, preventing the puppet Yan army from entering the Jiangdong area, the tax-heavy land of the Tang Dynasty, maybe the Tang court would have died.

Compared with Suiyang, a little-known town, Luoyang is a world-renowned majestic city!

When Wang Shichong occupied Luoyang, Taizong took a lot of effort to defeat him.

And this time Zhang Xun also prepared quite a lot of supplies, and there were still elite guards following him in Luoyang City to guard Suiyang. It might not be so easy for An Qingxu to attack Luoyang City in a short time.

On the other side, Tongguan, the passageway into Guanzhong, was retreated by Guo Ziyi's troops.

Tongguan is the passage to enter Guanzhong. The reason why An Lushan was able to break through Tongguan was because of the emperor's random command. He insisted on guarding Tongguan. Only then did Shan enter Chang'an.

But the situation is different now. Guo Ziyi is leading the remaining elites of the Tang Dynasty, and Guo Ziyi's fighting style is one word - steady. With Guo Ziyi's character, he will never rashly fight An Qingxu outside Tongguan.

So now there are two options before An Qingxu. One is to besiege Luoyang and then attack Luoyang City. As long as Luoyang can be captured, An Qingxu's army will have a foundation.

Luoyang has a large population, and there are iron workshops and granaries. As long as Luoyang can be occupied, then An Qingxu will have the capital to fight against Datang.

The other option is to attack Tongguan. If Guo Ziyi can be defeated, then he can go straight to attack Chang'an again. Now the newly recruited soldiers of Datang are still in training, which is when the strength of Datang is weakest. If they can capture Chang'an again, That was undoubtedly a huge blow to the prestige of Li Tang's royal family, and the Guanzhong area where Chang'an is located is also the foundation of Li Tang.

An Qingxu hesitated, should he besiege Luoyang or attack Tongguan?
An Qingxu's camp surrounded Luoyang City, and Zhang Xun, who guarded Luoyang, began to patrol the city wall in armor, cheering on the soldiers guarding Luoyang City.

Zhang Xuncong has been repairing Luoyang's city walls since he became the left guard in Luoyang, and now it really works.

After his repairs and reinforcements, the current city wall of Luoyang City has basically been repaired. Although Zhang Xun's soldiers are not many, they are enough to guard Luoyang City.

And Zhang Xun also hoarded enough grain in the granary of Luoyang City. When the war in Heyin was unfavorable, he released many people to leave Luoyang City. Anyway, Zhang Xun had already assumed a posture of sticking to the end.

Yu Chixin, who besieged Yingzhou City, already knew about the great changes in the Central Plains. At this time, the reinforcements led by Qin Chuan finally arrived.

Yu Chixin led many generals and players, and waited for Qin Chuan's reinforcements in the snow.

"Old Qin, you are finally here!" Yu Chixin said while holding Qin Chuan's hand.

Qin Chuan smiled and said, "I'm here to wipe your ass!"

Yu Chixin didn't care about the teasing in Qin Chuan's tone, but pulled Qin Chuan into the tent.

Yu Chixin was a pragmatic person, and he directly talked about the situation in Yingzhou City without waiting for Qin Chuan to undo his armor.

"We have besieged Cai Wenjing for two weeks. The city wall of Yingzhou is not very tall, but in order to prevent Cai Wenjing from jumping over the wall and fleeing from Yingzhou City, we have not used heavy weapons."

Yu Chixin's 2000 people besieged Cai Wenjing's 1 people. This sounds ridiculous, but it is a normal operation for players.

The current situation is that since Yu Chixin used the tactic of breaking the whole into pieces, the Cai Wenjing department in Yingzhou City dare not go out of the city, and stays in Yingzhou City every day.

This time Qin Chuan brought another [-] soldiers, and now that he had Yu Chixin with [-] soldiers, he was confident that he could eat Cai Wenjing's troops.

Yu Chixin added: "Another piece of news is that Shi Chaoyi outside Yuguan has withdrawn his troops, but Lao Zhang led his troops out of Yuguan to pursue them, but was ambushed by Shi Chaoyi once, but Lao Zhang also led his men to break through."

"Did Shi Chaoyi deliberately arrange suspicious troops and pretend to withdraw troops?"

Yu Chixin shook his head and said: "Probably not, the ambush should be Shi Chaoyi's insurance for a safe retreat, and it happened to be stuck in by Lao Zhang. Now according to the information of the internal guard players, Shi Chaoyi has really retreated, which means that Cai Wenjing's department has already retreated." It was given up by Shi Chaoyi."

Qin Chuan nodded and said, "The battlefield in the Central Plains is raging, and the Shi family father and son may also want to share a share."

Speaking of the war in the Central Plains, the atmosphere in the account was a little dull.

The development of the battle still exceeded the player's expectations. The player did not expect An Qingxu to be so capable of fighting, and Tang Jun to be defeated so quickly.

Now that An Qingxu's troops are besieging Luoyang, Guo Ziyi retreats to Tongguan, and the Tang Dynasty has reached the beginning of Anlu Mountain's southward march.

The next day, after Qin Chuan had finished resting, Yu Chixin assembled the army again, set up cannons and aimed at Yingzhou City.

Today Cai Wenjing was awakened by the sound of gunfire.

Since entering Yingzhou City, Cai Wenjing hasn't had a good night's sleep.

The original plan was that after occupying Yingzhou, Cai Wenjing would gradually take over Pinglu, and then join hands with Shi Chaoyi to capture Yuguan.

But Cai Wenjing never expected that his 1-strong army would be besieged in Yingzhou City by 2000 troops brought by Yu Chixin.

However, Cai Wenjing really couldn't fight out. He also organized several large-scale breakout battles, but once he gathered an army, the enemy would immediately disperse, and once Cai Wenjing's army left Yingzhou City, all kinds of Here comes the harassment tactic.

Cai Wenjing once asked the deputy general to lead 3000 people out of the city to collect food. After leaving the city, the enemy was like a blood-sucking leech, constantly gnawing down on the soldiers who were alone.

When they arrived in the village outside, not only was the food not collected, but the 3000-strong army lost 500 people without knowing it.

The deputy general immediately led the army back to Yingzhou City, and was ambushed several times on the way. When he returned to Yingzhou City and counted, the 3000 people had become 2000.

From then on, Cai Wenjing didn't dare to send troops out of the city anymore. He just asked the soldiers to repair the city wall, and he was going to wait until the ice and snow melted in the spring before trying to figure out a solution.

But what Cai Wenjing didn't expect was that Tang Jun took the lead in launching the attack.

The sound of artillery resounded throughout the world, and Cai Wenjing's personal soldiers came over in a hurry to report:
"General! The city wall has collapsed!"

Cai Wenjing stood up holding his sword. Since the occupation of Yingzhou, the Tang army had never used artillery. Cai Wenjing's description of the power of artillery came from soldiers who escaped from Yuguan.

But Cai Wenjing never expected that the power of this cannon was so great!After just a few roars, the city wall collapsed!
Although Yingzhou City is not a big city, it is still the place where the Pinglu Town is stationed. The past generations of Pinglu Jiedu envoys are also strengthening and repairing the city wall. Why is it like paper in front of the new weapons of the Tang army?
Cai Wenjing already had a bad premonition in his heart, but he still put on his armor and issued a military order to his personal guards to gather the troops in Yingzhou City.

Cai Zhong is a relative of Cai Wenjing, and served as a brigade commander in his army.

Cai Wenjing governed the army very strictly, even his relatives did not get much care, Cai Zhong also relied on his military achievements to become the brigade commander step by step.

Cai Zhong was quite critical of this, this time his battalion was arranged on the edge of the city wall, originally this was also the hardest job of defending the city.

But now Cai Zhong is only grateful to Cai Wenjing in his heart, because his camp is on the edge of the city wall, but he escaped the artillery fire of the Tang army. Looking at the big hole blasted by the artillery on the side of his camp, and recalling the explosion just now, his eyes watered. Hua, Cai Zhong's head is still buzzing, as if he was having a nightmare.

It's a pity that this is not a dream. Under the command of the captain, Cai Zhong will organize the brothers in the battalion to plug the gap in the city wall.

Cai Zhong's usual prestige played a role, and soon the soldiers in the camp gathered to him, and Cai Zhong immediately led the troops to go up.

Now is the battlefield, and the military law is strict. If he can't reach the designated position, he will be beheaded. Even if he is a relative of Cai Wenjing, Cai Wenjing will cut him off without hesitation.

But he regretted it when Cai Zhong just went up, Tang Jun's offensive was too fierce!
Tang Jun used a new type of weapon this time. When Cai Zhong's battalion just stepped forward, he was thrown a bunch of things by the opposite Tang Jun.

Originally, Cai Zhong was still wondering why Tang Jun didn't use bows and arrows, but instead threw this kind of stone with a handle. Can this thing kill people?

But soon, the reality taught Cai Zhong that the grenade thrown over exploded very quickly. The violent explosion turned the iron skin outside the grenade into a terrifying metal storm. Not a single howl came out.

Only then did Cai Zhong realize that he had already peed out of fear.

Unlike artillery siege, Cai Zhong did not see the power of the artillery and explosion with his own eyes, but this time he was a brother of his own battalion, who became a corpse in such an explosion, and even stood behind to supervise the battle Cai Zhongdu was thrown in the face by fragments of corpses.

Cai Zhong smelled a strong smell of sulfur and blood, he stuck out his tongue and licked his cheek, the strong smell of blood made him spit it out, and then Cai Zhong put down his weapon and ran away crazily.

Not only Cai Zhong, but all the Fan Yang troops who were attacked by the player's grenade collapsed. Just when Cai Wenjing came to the city wall on horseback, he saw that his position had been safely defeated!

(End of this chapter)