Late Tang

A night of scuffle fighting in the military capital, from dark to almost dawn, at dawn, Li Siyuan finally couldn't hold on.Although he is not reconciled, he wants to defend Guancheng to the death, and wants to rely on the streets and alleys of Guancheng to fight a street battle in the city.

The reinforcement vanguard led by Liu will arrive in the afternoon. As long as he can persist for a long time, there is still hope to regain the military capital.He sent a fast horse out of the customs and asked Liu for help on the way.He also promised his subordinates great rewards, saying that reinforcements would arrive in the morning.

Unfortunately, Li Siyuan didn't last until noon, not even dawn.

The Qin army raided a total of 1 horses, led by Bei Qin, the leader of the flying cavalry army, Yang Shihou, and Fu Cun, the leader of the brigade cavalry army, two disciples of Li Jing.With a sheepskin trick, he successfully captured the closed gate and solved the most difficult level in the raid army.

After entering the customs based on this, he used [-] elite light cavalry to deal with [-] Shatuo soldiers.Although Li Siyuan's Hengchong is also one of Shatuo's four elite trump cards, there are only [-] Hengchong, plus Shi Jingsi's [-] Yuhou's personal soldiers, and the remaining [-] wounded soldiers.Moreover, Junduguan was an enemy city that had just been captured for a day, and there were still a lot of prisoners from the Yiwu army and Lulong army inside, and they had to send their hands to guard these prisoners.Because this is a military fortress, there are no people in the city except his family and family members. When there is a war, he can't even recruit people to help him defend.

What's more, the Brigade Cavalry Army and the Flying Cavalry Army are not only young and strong, well-trained soldiers, but also well-equipped and sharp weapons.There are not only light but strong half-body armor and cable armor, but also extremely powerful Liannu, Thunderbolt, and even an easy-to-carry, but amazingly powerful flying thunder cannon.

In this battle, Li Siyuan was extremely depressed.He also fought many battles with the Qin army back and forth, but he never really took advantage of it.Speaking of it, his subordinates are very elite, brave, and sturdy, but no matter how brave the Shatuo warriors were, they were not defeated by bravery in the end, but by the excellent armor and sharp firearms and crossbows of the Qin army.

Under the Qin army's flying thunder cannons, thunderbolts, and continuous crossbows, the so-called resistance, defending according to the streets and alleys, and the plan to fight an urban defense war in an alleyway battle soon completely failed.

The Shatuo army hid in the house and shot arrows out of the window, and the Qin army directly threw a few thunderbolts into the house.Even their Thunderbolt can be divided into many types. Sometimes they don’t need that kind of explosion, just get a few choking smoke and gas bombs, and the Shatuo warriors in the room can be rushed out of the house one by one. Qin Jun They were shot to death one by one.

It was still a while before leaving Ming Dynasty, and the white fish belly in the east hadn't appeared yet, and the soldiers sent by Li Siyuan scattered all over the city were almost wiped out by the Qin army.When they retreated to the gate of Xiguan, when there was no way to retreat, of the five thousand Shatuo troops in the pass, only less than two thousand were left, and there were still many scars.

To live and die with Guan, or to retreat?

Li Siyuan thought for a long time, but in the end he had to order to withdraw from the customs in pain.If you don't leave, it will be too late.Qin Jun's twenty large black iron cylinders were already placed more than 100 steps away in front of them.Li Siyuan knew that this kind of big iron cylinder could directly throw a [-]-jin explosive package within [-] steps.Although the hit rate is not high, even if this kind of extremely shocking explosive package hits inaccurately, it is not something they can bear.

The reinforcements are still missing, no matter how fast they are, it will be too late.

At this time, Li Siyuan really regretted it.

If he had known that the Qin army would raid the military capital, he should not have had selfish intentions in his heart and agreed to Guo Chongtao's taking away [-] soldiers and horses to enter the customs.It's really hurting others and hurting oneself. He originally wanted to borrow a knife to kill people, and teach Guo Chongtao a lesson, but now.

Junduguan was short of troops and was captured by the Qin army in a surprise attack.He lost all his soldiers and generals, and almost wiped out all the rampages, leaving only a thousand men.The Qin army captured Junduguan, so Guo Chongtao was indeed in trouble, and he was in big trouble.Guo Chongtao's retreat had been cut off, he was completely surrounded by the Qin army, and he was closed and beaten.

He originally planned to teach Guo Chongtao a lesson, and after that arrogant guy was taught by Qin Jun, he and his wife rushed to rescue the siege.But now, Guo Chongtao has fallen into a tight siege, and it's hard to say whether he can come back alive.

He was careless, and at the slight cost of 5000 people, he raided and captured the Youzhou gateway fortress in less than half a month.Who would have thought that not long after being happy, Qin Jun slapped him hard.

It was a great achievement to take down the military capital, but now, not only the military capital is lost, but also Guo Chongtao is trapped in the enemy's siege.

How do I explain it when I go back?

Now not only Guo Chongtao is in a tight siege, but the commander-in-chief's beloved general Shi Jingsi has also fallen into the hands of Qin Jun.

Li Siyuan is a very decisive person, once a decision is made, he will never hesitate.

Judging that it was no longer possible to wait until reinforcements arrived, Li Siyuan immediately organized a retreat to break through.The seriously wounded were directly executed with a knife to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Qin army.Then nearly a thousand people who were slightly injured were left behind by him to perform the mortal mission to cover the retreat of the remaining thousand people.

After quickly arranging all this, Li Siyuan led Xue Atan, An Xiuxiu, and more than [-] Hengchong soldiers, opened the closed gate, and without looking back, one man and two horses rode out and fled from here .

The thousands of Shatuo soldiers left behind were very fierce, but unfortunately they did not cause any harm to the Qin army.A round of arrows rained and bombs passed, and thousands of people in this area died immediately, and it was completely quiet.

"There's no need to chase." Yang Shihou and Fu Cun briefly discussed, but did not agree with his subordinate's request to go out and chase.

Li Siyuan ran away resolutely, not only killed the seriously wounded, even the lightly wounded stayed behind to die.He didn't bring any burdens, and he had two horses.They fought all night, and the men and horses were exhausted. At this time, there was not much chance of winning in the pursuit.In addition, they already knew from the captives that Li Keyong's wife, Liu Shi, has led most of the follow-up troops to come, and they may arrive in the morning at the earliest.At this time, chasing out, the greatest possibility is to run into them.

"Immediately clear Guancheng and take over the defense. In addition, envoys from Yiwu Town are invited to announce our alliance with Marshal Li to the prisoners of Lulong and Yiwu Town who are imprisoned in the city, and let them choose freely, and those who are willing to stay with us, Incorporate into the auxiliary army battalion to help defend the city. If you are unwilling, send it to Shunzhou immediately, and make arrangements there." Fu Cun ordered.

After taking down the military capital, Guan Jian won a victory.

The urgent order sent by King Qin is that this time the army must capture Youzhou and prevent Shatuo from outside the pass.Now that the military pass has been captured, the Shatuo people have been stopped outside the pass.Although there are still 1 people in the pass, they have become a turtle in a urn.

"Taking down the military capital is already a great achievement of our flying cavalry army and brigade cavalry army. We don't need to bother with Youzhou, and leave it to Pei Dudu and them. We just need to guard the military capital and close the You can't take all the credit for it." Yang Shihou stood on the Guanlou, looked at the Lu Longjun and Yiwujun who voluntarily stayed behind to join the Qin army, and said with a chuckle.

Those who voluntarily go and stay are ordered. More than [-]% of the nearly [-] prisoners of war in Guanzhong chose to stay, join the Qin Army, and were incorporated into the Qin Army's auxiliary barracks.The composition of these people is relatively complicated. Lulong Town has been changing continuously in the past two years, and there have been several civil strife. From Liu Yue to Liu Yan, Liu Rengong, and Li Quanzhong, four owners have changed here in a short period of time.As an important gateway to the northwest of Youzhou, Junduguan has undergone several changes.Every time Youzhou changes owners, the soldiers here have to change accordingly.Most of the guards here are the confidantes of the original Jieshuai, so after the original Jieshuai is replaced by a later person, most of the old guards of this Guancheng will join, but some will be imprisoned.

In this way, and this time, Li Siyuan and his team raided the pass and captured a large number of officers and soldiers stationed here from Yiwu Town. Therefore, there are Liu Yue's subordinates, Liu Yan's subordinates, Liu Rengong's subordinates, and Li Quanzhong's subordinates, but there are no Shatuo prisoners of war. All were killed.

The Qin army is powerful, and these people know the choice. Even the guards of the Yiwu army, who were captured by the Shatuo army's raid, did not change their minds about joining the Qin army after they knew about the alliance between Li Quanzhong and Li Jing.These days, whoever serves as a soldier is not a soldier. If you want to choose, you must naturally choose a strong boss.

According to the last statistics, excluding those who were willing to leave, there were almost 2 people in Guanzhong who joined the Qin army.However, although these were originally soldiers, many of them were just old and weak soldiers recruited by force, some were white-haired old men, and some were just boys half the height of a person.Naturally, these people cannot become the Qin army, but for the time being, they still have to be incorporated into the auxiliary army camp.

After the war, Yang Shihou and Fu Cun interrogated the Shatuo prisoners, knowing that the military capital was not considered safe.Inside the pass, Guo Chongtao's 3 Shatuo soldiers have not yet been resolved, but outside the pass, Li Siyuan ran away with more than a thousand people, and Liu Shi is coming with more than [-] troops.

They have only 1 horses, but they must defend the military capital.

Fortunately, the military capital Guan Xiongguan Fortress, although it took less than a day for Shatuo Army and Qin Army to take this pass twice.But they are all tactics. If you really want to attack head-on, 1 people will guard this pass, and you will not be afraid of the attack of 5 to [-] people.It is not difficult to keep it for a year or two.However, Xiongguan Fortress is not so safe.It is difficult to attack from the front, but there is no guarantee that there will be the last two conspiracies of the Shatuo Army and the Qin Army to seize it.

Yang Shihou and Fu Cun didn't dare to be careless, and they were fully prepared to face the battle.

Outside Youzhou City, after Guo Chongtao captured Changping, he left [-] troops to guard Changping, and then led the remaining [-] troops to the northwest of Youzhou City, where they set up camp [-] miles away.At this time, Guo Chongtao was watching the terrain near Youzhou with his subordinates and discussing the plan to attack Youzhou.

Although Guo Chongtao was crazy, he was very cautious when fighting.He didn't take Li Kuangwei's 2 horsemen in Youzhou City to heart. What he was really wary of was the Shunzhou Qin Army in the north of Youzhou.This is why although he only has 2000 soldiers and horses, he has to leave [-] people to guard Changping.He was afraid that the Qin army would send troops suddenly to intercept and cut off his retreat.

"Send more scouts to keep an eye on the movements of the Qin army in Shunzhou. If there is any disturbance, this general will know it all." Guo Chongtao's eyes were sharp, and he swept across his subordinates like an eagle.

"Also, how are the siege equipment prepared?"

Youzhou is the number one city in the north, not only the center of culture and economy in the north, but also an important military fortress.It is not so easy to fight this city.

A Han officer replied: "Our craftsmen accompanying the army, plus many civilian craftsmen collected from Changping and nearby areas, can build enough siege equipment in just seven days."

Guo Chongtao snorted coldly, "I don't have seven days for you, seven days? Is the daylily cold? Three days, three days at most, you must build me at least thirty watchtowers, and each watchtower must accommodate a dozen people standing Shoot arrows on it. In addition, there must be at least a hundred ladders for siege. In addition, there are bridges for sports warfare and catapults for siege. These are also indispensable."

The Han officer was sweating on his forehead. Except for the ladder and the Haogou bridge, the rest were all very complicated and large equipment, which could not have been made so easily.But he didn't dare to refute, so he could only stand there with a face of embarrassment, and nodded with a bitter face.

Li Keyong, the adopted son of Li Cunxin, who was with the army, said: "It takes time to make equipment. Why don't we find another way and take care of it?"

"Could it be that General Cunxin has a good plan?" Guo Chongtao saw that it was Li Cunxin who spoke, and changed his color slightly.This Li Cunxin was originally a Uighur. Back then, Li Keyong and others sent him under the fence of the Tatars. The Tatars were bought by Li Jing and wanted to attack the Shatuo people.As a result, Li Cunxin's father reported the letter in advance, allowing Li Keyong to escape.But Li Cunxin's father was found and executed by the Tatars afterwards.In the end, Li Keyong adopted his son as an adopted son and named him Li Cunxin.Li Cunxin was not as good as Li Siyuan, Li Sizhao and other righteous brothers in riding, shooting and fighting, but he was the most eloquent, and often slandered Li Keyong, speaking ill of other righteous brothers.Guo Chongtao had also heard about it, and he kept a respectful distance from this viper-like fellow.

Li Cunxin is currently serving as Marquis of Duyu in Guo Chongtao's army, and is a military judge.

"Someone really had an immature idea, so he threw bricks in front of the general to make everyone laugh." Li Cunxin smiled slightly, and showed off a little complacently: "Poyouzhou, there are three strategies here, and I am willing to relieve the general's worries. .”

Guo Chongtao is very crazy, but because of his high ability, people with some ability are naturally more crazy.Li Cunxin likes to slander and gossip behind his back. People like this are usually people with no skills, so they have to do some shameless things.Guo Chongtao looked down on Li Cunxin very much, and when he heard that he had a plan to destroy Youzhou, he secretly despised him.Can Youzhou be broken if it is said to be broken?Hearing that he actually said that there are still three strategies to break Youzhou, he almost threw up his sleeves and left.

But in the end he held back, sat there and listened to Li Cunxin's three strategies.

After listening, Guo Chongtao frowned and fell into deep thought.He didn't expect that the policy of breaking Youzhou up, down, and up, said by this villain with a roe-headed mouse, was not completely nonsense. On the contrary, after he heard it, his eyes suddenly brightened. (To be continued.)