Chapter 2251 Huo Qubing vs. Li Shimin


    Chapter 2248: Huo Qubing VS Li Shimin


    After hearing Bai Feng''s words, Li Jing was not disappointed. After all, if even the country was completely infiltrated, Li Shimin would be sorry for his title of King Tang.


    "There are 200 Black Ice Platform Swordsmen in Chang''an City, but the bad people are very cautious about us. If there is no perfect solution, it will be difficult for these 200 swordsmen to open the city gate." Mo Ya said.


    Li Jing heard what Mo Ya said, and he hoped that he would not easily activate these two hundred swordsmen before he was sure, otherwise these two hundred swordsmen would definitely die.


    Li Jing''s status is much higher than that of Mo Ya Baifeng, but the Black Ice Platform directly served the King of Qin and was not under the jurisdiction of Li Jing. Therefore, Li Jing did not command the Black Ice Platform. It was only because Li Jing invaded Guanzhong that the Black Ice Platform''s power in Guanzhong temporarily obeyed Li Jing.


    "Don''t worry, I will not easily activate these two hundred swordsmen until I have absolute certainty."


    Li Jing pondered, thinking in his heart how to plan so that the role of these two hundred swordsmen can be maximized.


    "Report to the Grand Governor... Report to the Grand Governor, Yang Jian led his army away from Lantian and headed straight for our army."


    "Sure enough, I''ve left the city."


    Li Jing was overjoyed. The reason why he bypassed Lantian and took a direct attitude towards Chang''an was to force Yang Jian out of the city.


    After all, if Yang Jian was determined to defend Lantian, it would be impossible for the Qin army to break the city without killing tens of thousands of people. Lantian blocked the Qin army''s food route and was one of the necessary cities to occupy.


    Li Jing didn''t know if Yang Jian would be fooled. After all, Yang Jian also had a resourceful Sima Yi. It was easy to hide this plan from Yang Jian, but it was not that easy to hide it from Sima Yi.


    But whether it succeeds or not, Li Jing has to give it a try, it is better than sitting there and waiting for death.


    Li Jing was already ready to retreat and encircle Lantian again if the plan failed. However, Hei Bingtai gave him a big surprise and directly instigated six counties.


    The surrender of the six counties in Guanzhong made Li Jing''s plan more perfect, and directly changed from conspiracy to open conspiracy. This is the main reason why Sima Yi did not persuade Yang Jian.


    "With Sima Yi here, Yang Jian will definitely not confront our army head-on, but they can''t decide this."


    Li Jing smiled coldly and ordered: "Huang Zhong, who was sent to the command of the command of the Tang army, ordered him to lead his army to Lantian immediately after the Tang army left Lantian.


    By the way, with Sima Yi''s ruthlessness, he would probably leave a backhand in the city, so let Huang Zhong be more cautious and strictly prevent the Tang army attack.


    In addition, don’t think about grain warehouses or something anymore. Sima Yi will never leave half of food and grass for our army. ”


    "No."


    Just as Li Jing and Sima Yi were fighting wits, Li Shimin had ordered the abandonment of Wuzhangyuan and the entire army retreated to Chang''an to defend the enemy.


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    It’s impossible not to give up. Fenglingdu has been captured by Zhang Liao, and Yiguan is also occupied by Li Jing. More than 100,000 elite Qin troops entered Guanzhong. The Tang army could only compete with the Qin army by defending the city.


    In addition, Lu Bu was leading five thousand iron cavalry and heading straight to Wuzhangyuan. Although Wuzhangyuan is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it can only block one Qin army. If it is attacked from both sides, the situation of Wuzhangyuan Tang army will be very dangerous.


    There is Huo Qubing in front and Lu Bu behind. If he does not withdraw in time, once Lu Bu blocks the retreat, Li Shimin can''t even retreat even if he wants to.


    The Qin army did not even need to fight with the Tang army. It only needed to drag Li Jing to lead the army to arrive. At that time, the three armies would join forces to encircle, and the Qin army would not even need to pay much to wipe out the 60,000 troops under Li Shimin''s troops.


    The 60,000 Tang troops in Wuzhangyuan are the last force of the Tang State. If the entire army is wiped out, then the Tang State will have no power to fight back against Qin State and will have to be passively beaten. Therefore, Li Shimin must bring these 60,000 troops back to Chang''an.


    Thinking back on the confidence he was when sending troops, Li Shimin only felt frustration in his heart at this time.


    With the 80,000 troops in hand, he did not have the opportunity to eliminate Huo Qubing, but Huo Qubing was too cunning and his use of cavalry was extremely clever. Relying on the cavalry''s speed advantage, he was as slippery as a loach.


    Li Shimin launched three encirclements and suppression in total, but Huo Qubing saw through them and escaped from the Tang army''s encirclement in advance.


    The cavalry of Li Shimin and Li Siyuan''s unit is actually only 15,000. If they can entangle Huo Qubing''s unit, they can still surround Huo Qubing''s unit, but the Tang army''s cavalry cannot catch up.


    Li Shimin even personally passed the cavalry and took out the fastest marching speed, but he just couldn''t keep up with the speed of the Qin army, but was pulled further and further away by the Qin army.


    The Xiliang horse was not as fast as the Bingzhou horse, which was simply unreasonable. However, the Bingzhou wolf cavalry under Huo Qubing was faster than the Tang army cavalry riding the Xiliang horse.


    The closest Li Shimin is to success is the third time. After summarizing the experience of the previous two failures, he almost managed to sleep Huo Qubing to death for the third time, but he didn''t expect that Gongsun Xuanyuan would appear halfway.


    With his personal charm, Gongsun Xuanyuan defeated and reorganized the Tang army prisoners of war, and led 5,000 iron cavalry and 10,000 surrendered soldiers to help in the war.


    Gongsun Xuanyuan''s strategic vision is no worse than Huo Qubing. He can see the weakness of the Tang army''s encirclement at a glance, and then breaks the weak blockade of Li Siyuan and rescue Huo Qubing from the Tang army''s encirclement.


    Since then, Li Shimin''s three encirclements and suppression against Huo Qubing have all failed, and Fenglingdu and Yuguan have been successively captured, and the retreat route was threatened by Lu Bu. Li Shimin had no choice but to give up Wuzhangyuan and retreat to Chang''an.


    After Gongsun Xuanyuan rescued Huo Qubing, the total force of the two Qin army reached 40,000. In terms of combat power, he was no longer afraid of the Tang army, so it was naturally impossible for the Tang army to escape easily.


    In response, Li Shimin ordered Li Siyuan to retreat to Huaili to take charge of the defense of Youfufeng County. At the same time, he left 10,000 troops in Wuzhangyuan to cut off the rear, and he himself led 50,000 troops to retreat to Chang''an at night.


    The ten thousand troops left behind were obviously reduced to abandoned sons and were led by Li Sizhao, the general of the Li Tang royal family.


    Li Sizhao ranked second among the Thirteen Taibaobao. He was adopted by Li Kerong''s younger brother Li Kerou. He was brave, skilled in military tactics, brave in combat, and was down-to-earth and cautious. He participated in the battles such as the regaining of Luzhou, pacifying Li Yan, the Battle of Taiyuan, and the Northern Attack on Khitan. He was a lot of military achievements.


    Li Sizhao was implanted into Li Siyuan''s younger brother. Both of them were from the Li Tang royal family. They were deeply trusted and valued by Li Shimin because of their outstanding abilities.


    Li Shimin naturally refused to let Li Sizhao, the clan brother, die, but if others were asked to be the abandoned son, if the other party gave up and surrendered to Qin directly, he would shoot himself in the foot.


    Now that Li Tang has reached a critical moment of life and death, the only ones that can make Li Shimin trust are the children of the Li Tang clan, so even if Li Shimin is reluctant to give up Li Sizhao.


    (This chapter ends)