Chapter 1789 Yue Fei VS Li Shimin


    Chapter 1787: Yue Fei VS Li Shimin


    While Qin Zheng was commanding the elite Beiwei Army and preparing to go south to support Jiangling, the Wuxiang War underwent an astonishing change.


    The enemies facing the Qin army in Nanxiang County were mainly the 80,000 Tang troops who came from Wuguan and Hanzhong, and they were led by Tang King Li Shimin himself.


    Li Shimin''s original intention was to first capture Wuxiang, seize Nanjun, completely cut off the connection between Sizhou and Jingbei, and then the Chu and Shu Kingdom divided the remaining counties in Jingbei, while the Tang Kingdom took the opportunity to attack Sizhou on both sides.


    Li Shimin''s strategic plan was formulated quite well, but he underestimated the ability of the Wuxiang prefect Pei Xingjian, and he did not expect Yue Fei to lead reinforcements so quickly.


    Nanxiang County is adjacent to Hanzhong and Wuguan. It has a dangerous terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the enemy and our troops are too disparity.


    In Jiangling, Meng Gong formed a mixed army of 10,000 new and old, against Liu Xiu, the Chu State''s 50,000 army.


    In Nanxiang, Pei Xingjian used an army of 10,000 to fight against Li Shimin, the 80,000 army of the Tang Dynasty, which shows the degree of danger.


    Nanxiang County is the east gate of Jingbei. Once Wuxiang County falls, Nanyang County will be flat and there is almost no other place to defend except for a strong city, Wancheng.


    Qu Yuan, the prefect of Nanyang County, and Meng Wu, the prefect of Zhangling County, both knew the importance of Nanxiang County, so they sent troops to Nanxiang to support Pei Xingjian in guarding Wuxiang against Li Shimin.


    Nanyang and Zhangling counties gathered 8,000 troops to support Nanxiang, which also caused the county''s troops to drop greatly. The total number of defenders in the two counties was only 8,000. However, it was precisely because of this that Pei Xingjian could persist in the arrival of Yue Fei''s reinforcements to Wuxiang.


    Pei Xingjian, who commanded 96, only had 18,000 defenders. Facing the Tang King Li Shimin, who commanded 100, and the 80,000 elite troops of the Tang Kingdom, even if he wanted to rely on the right geography, he could not defend himself.


    In less than half a month, the Qin army retreated continuously, and the five counties including Ye County were captured by the Tang army, losing nearly 5,000 troops.


    You should know that Nanxiang County has only eight counties in total. Five counties were captured by the Tang army, and most of Nanxiang has fallen into the hands of the Tang army.


    When Pei Xingjian, the most powerful county in the western front, pledged to death, he knew that the counties behind could not be defended at all, so he mobilized a large number of city-guarding equipment and concentrated his efforts to defend Nanxiang County of the capital.


    With the gaps in the fall of the five counties as a buffer, when the Tang army came to the city of Nanxiang, Nanxiang had been built into a fortress by Pei Xingjian, and also mobilized the people of the whole city to help defend the city. The military and civilians were united, and their defense was by no means comparable to those of the previous cities.


    Li Shimin also realized that Nanxiang City was not easy to fight, so he just siege the city first, and then sent Li Yuanba, Zhang Xiu and others to seize the other two counties, hoping to completely reduce Nanxiang into an isolated city so that it would not see any hope, and then take the opportunity to surrender and give hope to the guard generals.


    Li Shimin had a good psychological warfare, but he ignored the fact that the Pei and Qin families were in a marriage relationship. Qin Zheng married Pei Cuiyun, the eldest daughter of the Pei family, and Pei Xingjian was Qin Zheng''s younger brother-in-law, so how could he defect to Li Shimin?


    Li Shimin''s persuasion of surrender failed without any surprise, but he was not disappointed at all. If he didn''t surrender, he would attack the city. Anyway, he had the ace Li Yuanba in his hand. He almost suffered no casualties along the way, so he captured the seven counties of Nanxiang.


    In the other counties in Nanxiang, except for Ye County, the city gates were all wooden doors, which could not stop Li Yuanba''s hammer. After several hammers, the city gate was smashed and the army entered the city, so the city naturally fell.


    Even Ye County, which has the Iron City Gate, is naturally impossible to stop Li Yuanba because of its relatively low height.


    Li Yuanba easily climbed the city tower, and then killed the defenders of the whole city and naturally surrendered.


    Therefore, when the Tang army attacked Nanxiang City, its troops not only did not lose much, but also reduced more than 3,000 Qin troops, and its troops increased instead of reducing. In Li Shimin''s view, he easily captured seven of the eight counties in Nanxiang, so Nanxiangcheng was naturally no exception. Even if the Nanxiang city gate was cast with pure steel and the city wall was the highest, it could not stop his younger brother Li Yuanba.


    Li Shimin underestimated Pei Xingjian''s difficulty. In order to prevent Li Yuanba from climbing the city tower, Pei Xingjian personally commanded 1,500 powerful crossbow soldiers, 100 bed crossbows and 50 catapults, specifically targeting Li Yuanba alone, just to prevent him from climbing to Nanxiangcheng.


    In the battle of Bohai, Su Dingfang used the crossbow stone formation to kill the grandmaster Yuan Shoucheng, giving all the generals a good start, letting them know that their personal power was ultimately inferior to the army, and the method of using crossbow stone to deal with masters was also imitated.


    Pei Xingjian had no other way to deal with Li Yuanba, so he could only use resources to destroy it. Although this would reduce the defense of Nanxiangcheng, it would be better than letting the Tang army destroy the city without damage?


    Pei Xingjian''s strategy is feasible. With so many devices targeting him, even Li Yuanba could not get up, and Li Shimin had no choice but to attack the city.


    Tang Jun, who had not suffered much damage along the way, finally got bleeding from the city of Nanxiang.


    After all, the Tang army was also one of the strongest troops in the world. It was just a mere casualties, which was not enough to shake morale. It still attacked Nanxiang with the most fierce offensive.


    Under the ten-day fierce attack of the Tang army, Nanxiangcheng was shaking and could fall at any time.


    At this moment, Yue Fei, who was restored to his post, arrived in time with ten thousand Sizhou reinforcements.


    Yue Fei''s timely arrival greatly boosted the morale of the entire Nanxiang army, not only saving Nanxiangcheng, but also saving Nanyang in the rear.


    The atmosphere of the Qin army changed as soon as Yue Fei arrived. Before he arrived, the Qin army had been passively beaten, and he never thought of taking the initiative, but after Yue Fei arrived, the Qin army was no longer afraid of fighting.


    Yue Fei arrived that day and personally led a thousand cavalry that night, attacked the Li Tang camp at night, killed thousands of enemies and left, leaving only a chaotic fire camp for Li Shimin, which shocked and angry.


    Afterwards, Yue Fei will let 30,000 new recruits enter Nanxiang to bring Nanxiang''s defense to a higher level.


    You should know that there were 70,000 new troops in Jingbei, but Yue Fei mobilized 30,000 to Nanxiang City, leaving only 40,000 for Xiangyang, which was under greater pressure. This shows the importance attached to the Tang army.


    After Yue Fei arrived in Nanxiang, he blocked Li Shimin''s more than 70,000 Tang troops with a main force of 15,000 30,000 new and 45,000 mixed troops of new and old, and blocked Li Shimin''s more than 70,000 Tang troops outside Nanxiang and did not make any progress.


    Li Shimin, who is commanding 100, can naturally defeat the other party easily when facing Pei Xingjian of 96, but he has no advantage when facing Yue Fei of 102.


    If the Tang army had not been more comprehensive combat power than the Qin army, Li Shimin might have been defeated by Yue Fei.


    After more than a month of war, Li Shimin tried all his best, but still failed to capture Nanxiang. Not only did he not be able to do anything to Yue Fei in the city, but he also had to be wary of Yue Fei''s counterattack from time to time. At this time, he finally realized Liu Xiu''s despair when facing Yue Fei.


    "We can''t continue like this."


    Li Shimin angrily hammered the document and said coldly: "With Yue Fei in Nanxiangcheng, even if he continues to attack, it will probably still be difficult to break through. If he cannot pass Nanxiang, he will not be able to enter Nanyang, and the attack on Sizhou on both sides will not be completed."


    Hearing this, after the four great strategists Du Ruhui, Li Ru, Changsun Wuji and Li Kui looked at each other, Li Kui, the youngest military advisor, stood up and clasped his fists and said, "Lord, the best strategy is no longer feasible. It''s time to give up the best strategy and adopt the most advanced strategy."


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