Chapter 1997 Aid to Jingbei


    Chapter 1995: Helping Jingbei


    Looking at the ruins of Hangu Pass in front of you, Li Jing, Han Xin, Guo Jia and others were speechless for a long time.


    The Tang army destroyed Hangu Pass very thoroughly. It was not enough to set fire to the pass once. It destroyed it again before leaving, in order to prevent the Qin army from restoring Hangu Pass.


    With the financial and material resources of the Qin army, Hangu Pass can naturally be restored, but if one is rebuilt, it will be a bit more costly.


    Although Hangu Pass has been destroyed, its geographical location is still there. If you set up camp here, you can also defend it with danger, but Li Shimin did not do so.


    Li Shimin knew that establishing a camp alone was destined to be unable to stop the Qin army and would only lose more troops, so he had to abandon the Hangu territory.


    Although Li Shimin was willing to give up Hangu Pass, he was afraid that the Qin army would repair Hangu Pass again, so he destroyed it before leaving, destroying the foundation of Hangu Pass.


    Hangu Pass was destroyed very thoroughly, and there was no difference between restoration and one being built. Even if the Qin army was rich and powerful, it would be impossible to rebuild Hangu Pass because it was not worth it.


    With the financial and material resources, it is better to conquer Guanzhong directly. With the strength of the Qin army, isn’t it impossible? What''s more, defense is something that only weak countries do.


    The Qin State''s national strength is so strong and its military strength is far more than that of the Tang State. It will only continue to expand externally and does not require defense at all, so naturally there is no need for Hangu Pass.


    Therefore, Li Shimin''s second destruction of the pass is equivalent to completely erasing the Hangu Pass from the Han map, and the Hangu Pass will never appear again in the future.


    "The last general was incompetent and failed to catch up with the Tang army."


    Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun knelt down together and asked Li Jing to avenge him. After Li Jing sighed, he stepped forward and helped both generals up.


    "It''s not the two generals that Li Shimin escaped too quickly. I didn''t expect Li Shimin to escape so decisively, and only after 70,000 casualties were killed or injured, he gave up without hesitation."


    Li Jing''s words were not correct at all. Li Shimin was indeed too alert. After learning that Zhao Yun had gone south, he retreated from Luoyang without any hesitation.


    If Guo Jia hadn''t suggested that Zhang Liao lead the cavalry to pursue first, the 50,000 elite infantrymen in the Longmen Formation would have been taken back to Guanzhong by Li Shimin.


    In fact, if you fail to catch up with the Tang army, you can''t blame Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao.


    Needless to say, Zhang Liao went around hundreds of miles, and only then would there be ghosts if he could catch up.


    Zhao Yun went south from Hetao, crossed Bingzhou, crossed the Yellow River, and entered Sizhou. The place he passed was more than a thousand miles, and he had almost never stopped for a moment. The reason why he was still one step late was because Li Shimin was guarding against him at the beginning.


    What Li Shimin was afraid of was that Zhao Yun cut off his retreat, and even gave up all his achievements in Sizhou. How could he let Zhao Yun arrive at Tongguan first before he retreated to Tongguan?


    In the final analysis, Li Shimin is too powerful and has basically not revealed any flaws, so naturally he will not give the Qin army any chance.


    After hearing Li Jing''s words, Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao''s expressions improved a lot. They all knew what Li Shimin''s retreat to Tongguan meant.


    "Report to the general, after Li Shimin retreated into Tongguan, he not only did not return to Chang''an, but instead dispatched troops from various parts of Guanzhong to Tongguan."


    Hearing this, a sharp look flashed in Li Jing''s eyes and he said coldly: "Li Shimin has such a sinister intention."


    Li Shimin has withdrawn from Sizhou, but he still refuses to withdraw his troops completely. Instead, he continues to increase his troops. Is this trying to continue to fight the Qin army?


    Of course not.


    Li Tang needed heavy troops to defend many places. Defence based on his current military strength is now the limit. Even if the number of troops is only 10,000 or 20,000, it will be of no use in the overall situation, let alone fighting for Sizhou. The real purpose of Li Shimin doing this is to restrain the Qin army in Sizhou, so as to give Chu and Shu countries that are conquering Jingbei and create an opportunity to completely occupy Jingbei.


    As long as the 80,000 Li Tang army was placed in Tongguan, the Qin army in Sizhou would not dare to go south to Jingbei. Otherwise, once the Tang army was fighting back, Sizhou would still be in danger of being insured.


    If the 200,000 Hebei Qin troops who supported Si Jing could not all go south to support Yue Fei in Jingbei, the Qin army''s troops in Jingbei could not crush the two countries, and the outcome of the Jingbei war would still be unknown.


    Why did Li Shimin work so hard to help Liu Xiu and Liu Ji? What are the benefits of doing this for Li Tang?


    On the surface, there is no benefit at all. It is purely to harm oneself and benefit others, but in fact, weakening Qin, a strong neighbor, is the greatest benefit to Tang.


    I have to say that as an ally, Li Shimin is still very powerful and has not cheated his teammates at all. He is far more than Wang Mang and Liu Che.


    The reason why Hebei''s battle situation was defeated so quickly is not that Liu Che was not wise enough, nor that Han Xin was not able to fight, but that Wang Mang, the pig teammate, was too cheating.


    If Wang Mang hadn''t been defeated by Li Jing so quickly, Lian Po would not have been defeated by Li Jing and his entire army would have been wiped out. Lian Po was undefeated, and the other two major battles would not have been defeated, at least they would not have been defeated so quickly.


    In the final analysis, Wang Mang was too crooked, which was the main reason for Liu Che''s defeat. He was simply a noble person to Qin Hao.


    Therefore, you must be cautious when finding teammates. You must be so unscathing for Li Shimin. If you encounter someone like Wang Mang who cheats teammates, it will be useless even if you are strong.


    "General, what should I do now?" Zhang Liao asked.


    Li Jing glanced at Guo Jia, saw him nodding at him, and immediately said in a deep voice: "General Han Xin, you lead 70,000 infantry, General Zhao Yun, you lead 30,000 Hetao Iron Cavalry.


    You two immediately led the army south to Jingbei to support General Yue Fei.


    The remaining army of this general stayed in Hongnong County and confronted Li Shimin, and looked for opportunities to see if he could break through Tongguan. ”


    As Zhao Yun went south to Sizhou, Li Jing led his army to Hongnong County. Even if he eliminated the losses in the previous battle, the total strength of the Qin army in Sizhou reached an astonishing 283,000.


    In addition to the troops that cannot be used at various levels, the troops that can be used in war are still as many as 250,000.


    This is already more than the total number of troops in Li Tang in the current country.


    Now Li Yuanba, Yang Jian and others are seriously injured, and many generals such as Yu Juluo have been killed in battle, and the elite soldiers have been lost as much as 70,000. This is the weakest time when Li Tang is the weakest.


    Li Jing wanted to take this opportunity to command the 250,000 army, and directly destroy the Tang Kingdom and eliminate the great trouble of Li Shimin, but he could only think about it.


    Li Jing’s main task this time was to rescue Sijing. Although the Sizhou crisis has been lifted, the Jingbei crisis has not yet ended, so naturally, rescue Jingbei must be the first.


    Before eliminating the danger of Jingbei, even if the opportunity to destroy the Tang Kingdom is in front of you, Li Jing must resist the temptation.


    Of course, now is not the time to destroy Tang.


    Hebei, which the Qin army had just occupied, has not been completely digested. It is too difficult to destroy Tang at this time.


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