Chapter 51: Exploring the Camp Outside the Gate
After Yang Guang rebuilt Luoyang City, this city became one of the few heroic cities in the world, nearly 100,000 Tang troops surrounded Luoyang, but Wang Shichong was very experienced in defense, and attacked repeatedly, but could not climb the city wall half a step.
More than ten days later, many generals of the Tang Army saw that the city of Luoyang was strong and difficult to overcome. The morale gradually declined, and there was a meaning of retreating, anyway, this time the Eastern Expedition to Luoyang won a complete victory, and it was no big deal to return to Chang'an to repair and go out again.
However, Li Shimin insisted on his own opinion this time, saying that Luoyang would never return to the army if it was not broken.
Gao Cheng knew that whether it was the original history or the timeline of this world, Li Shimin had won a big victory in the Battle of Luoyang, and this time with his help, the chance of winning was eighty percent. It is impossible to miss, so I also support Li Shimin's decision.
On this day, the generals under Wang Shichong's command who guarded the Tiger Prison Pass sent people to surrender to Cheng, and the Tiger Prison Pass changed hands. The four directions of Luoyang, east, west, north and south were completely enclosed.
Li Shimin was overjoyed, and many generals of the Tang army were also invigorated, if the importance of the Tiger Pass to Luoyang, just as Tongguan was to Chang'an, the Tang army seized the Tiger Pass and blocked the reinforcements of Dou Jiande, the king of Xia, to the south. The soldiers and horses of Zheng Xia and Zheng Xia were separated, and there was a basis for each defeat.
In the big tent, Li Shimin and many generals and masters of the Tang Army were lined up on both sides, and Gao Cheng sat at the head of the left side of the commander's seat, looking at the herald in the middle of the tent to report the military situation.
“...... Dou Jiande led an army of 300,000 to the south, and had already broken through Guanzhou, Xingyang, and Yangzhai! Now that he was camped in Chenggao, General Zuowei Wang ordered his subordinates to come and report to the King of Qin and ask the King of Qin to make a decision!
After all, there are only 80,000 soldiers in the Tang army, and they still need to besiege Luoyang City, if the 300,000 army comes to Luoyang and attacks inside and outside, the Tang army will be in danger.
Li Shimin's expression did not change in the slightest, and said with a smile: "When Cao Cao's 200,000 army went south to Chibi, he dared to claim that he had an army of 830,000, but it was just a bluff, the people of Hebei were tired, and the world knew that it would be good if Dou Jiande could have an army of 150,000!"
Qu Tutong and Xiao Yu glanced at each other, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, the 150,000 army is also twice the size of the Tang army, Qu Tutong hid worry on his face, and said: "King Qin, our army has been attacking Luoyang for a long time, the soldiers are tired, Luoyang is difficult to break quickly, and Dou Jiande has broken three cities in a row, and the morale is unbeatable, why don't our army retreat to Xin'an and wait for the opportunity?"
Li Shimin explained: "Wang Shichong only has a lonely city left, a few days ago he led a large army to fight, was defeated by our army, and has no courage to go out of the city to fight, as long as the army besieges the city, he will never rush out, as for Dou Jiande, our army has a tiger in hand, his army of more than 100,000 is difficult to advance, as long as Dou Jiande is solved first, Luoyang City will definitely collapse without a fight!"
Gao Cheng listened to the discussion and persuasion of these people, his mind wandered, and he secretly operated the exercises, constantly enhancing the strength of his true qi, and the realm was temporarily difficult to break through, but his true qi could continue to accumulate. Especially in the Seven Pairs of Ascendant Qi Diagrams, after the cultivation of the Golden Qi Diagram, the Water Qi Diagram has also made a lot of progress.
"The seven diagrams of the recipe for longevity, the five elements and yin and yang are parallel, gold gives birth to water, and water gives birth to wood...... The five elements circulate, and it is not very difficult to cultivate, but the qi of yin and yang is a little profound! It is difficult to comprehend without special chances. Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling didn't know what luck they had taken, and they were ignorant enough to practice the two most profound qi diagrams!" Gao Cheng sighed in his heart the luck of these two Heavenly Destiny protagonists.
When Gao Chengzheng was absent-minded, there was a sudden sound of his palm slapping on the wooden case in his ears, he looked at it, and saw Li Shimin's expression firm, and he said sharply: "This king has made a decision, don't persuade you anymore, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin, and Wei Chigong listen to the order, and the three of you choose four thousand elite horsemen and follow me to the Tiger Prison!"
Then Li Shimin's gaze fell on Gao Cheng, his voice softened, and he said, "Third brother, would you like to go to the Tiger Prison with me, and meet this Xia King for a while?"
Gao Cheng laughed and immediately agreed. What he is waiting for is the battle of Tiger Prison Pass, and when the time comes, he will capture Dou Jiande, and he will not have more than 100,000 fate points in his account, such a good opportunity cannot be missed.
At noon, four thousand iron horsemen gathered outside the camp, among which there were 1,500 people, it was Li Shimin who selected the elite of the Tang Army to form the Xuanjia elite cavalry, men and horses wearing armor, everyone was a good hand at cultivating true qi, after strict training, they were invincible in the charge.
This Xuanjia cavalry is Li Shimin's reliance on Dou Jiande's hundreds of thousands of troops.
"Let's go!"
Li Shimin looked at his elite subordinates, as well as Qin Qiongcheng biting Jin and other generals, and a burst of pride suddenly surged in his heart, this battle has the third brother Li Xuanba to suppress the formation, even if he is not defeated by Dou Jiande, he can easily get out without danger to his life. Since he has such a guarantee, of course he has to fight.
Half a day later, the tiger was closed.
When Gao Cheng and Li Shimin galloped to this Xiongguan, Wang Junkuo immediately stepped forward to greet him, and everyone came to the wall, looking into the distance, as the saying goes, people are over 10,000, boundless, Dou Jiande's hundreds of thousands of troops are under the Tiger Prison, and the camp and the soldiers and horses can not be seen at a glance. The soldiers guarding the gate were a little panicked.
"Third brother, Shubao, Jingde and bite gold, follow me out of the customs and see how King Xia's camp is built!"
Li Shimin saw that the morale of the soldiers was not high, and his heart moved, and he immediately proposed to everyone to go out to observe the enemy's camp, and there were only five people without a large army. In his tone, he didn't take Dou Jiande's army of tens of thousands in his eyes at all.
After several successive large-scale battles, Li Shimin's art of war has been tempered, and he is both wise and brave, if he is an ordinary general, he will definitely not only take a few people to observe the enemy's camp.
Gao Cheng laughed and said, "Okay! Since the second brother has this intention, I will go with you!"
He understood what Li Shimin meant, a few people went out to explore the camp, if the enemy army did not come out, in the eyes of the Tang soldiers, it would become a fearful behavior, and his own side could boost morale, if the enemy chased, he could also lure the enemy deep and take the opportunity to ambush. No matter how the other side reacted, the Tang army was able to frustrate the enemy's edge and restore morale.
Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin and others were relieved when they heard that Gao Cheng was also preparing to move, although they were all first-class masters in the rivers and lakes, they still felt a little bottomless in the face of tens of thousands of troops, it didn't matter if they died on the battlefield, what they were afraid of was that Li Shimin would be killed by the Xia army.
When the time comes, the commander of the Don Army will be killed, and the war will be over. And now with Li Xuanba, who is known as the number one master of Li Valve and the fourth great master in the world, he has stepped in to protect him, even if he is in the middle of ten thousand troops, they have the confidence to go back and forth.
On that day, Gao Cheng killed several masters of the Demon Gate outside the Liangyi Hall in a row, and after the evil king Yin Queen returned in vain, his reputation in the rivers and lakes became more and more resounding, and some people even said that his strength was similar to that of the scattered Ning Daoqi. After this news came out, not many people refuted it.
The reputation of the eight masters of the Demon Gate, in the eyes of the second-rate and third-rate people on the rivers and lakes, each of them is a peerless devil. Among them, although Tianjun Xi Ying was defeated by Heavenly Sword Song Que, he could at least fight dozens of moves with the other party, as well as the demon handsome Zhao Deyan and the meridian sword Zuo Youxian, these demon masters joined forces, and they were actually beaten to death by Li Xuanba alone.