The war is really unpredictable, and at dusk, Li Shimin thought that he would be able to preserve his vitality by retreating decisively so as not to follow in the footsteps of the last time, but he never thought that he was wrong again. The last time was to fall into a heavy siege without retreating, this time the decisive retreat, who would have thought that the Sui army's siege was too sharp, and in less than two hours, Wang Jun, who had high hopes, was stunned and defeated, and the soldiers of the whole city were in chaos because of the retreat and the enemy's large-scale entry into the city.

The city gate has been opened, if they break and flee, they will not be able to escape the Sui cavalry, at this point, it is impossible not to fight, and the two sides will inevitably decide a victory.

Zhuyang Pass is a pure pass, there are still some military households in peacetime, after the war, this land is the territory of the cannibal demon king Zhu Cang, and the people are either eaten by Niu Cang's soldiers or flee. Now there are no people, and both sides do not have the slightest concern about fighting.

Li Shimin divided the elite army into three, Hou Junji and Liu Hongji faced the Sui army on the left and right, and he personally commanded the Red Armor Army to meet Xue Wanjun's trapped camp. At this time of the development of events, no matter how subtle the arrangement of troops is, it is useless, what is needed is to destroy the enemy with a thunderous momentum!

When the narrow road meets, the brave wins.

As long as it was delayed for an hour or two, then the wounded soldiers and Wenchen could board the cargo ship and go down the river, as for the Sui army behind, he didn't care about it now.

Xue Wanjun has fought with his father Xue Shixiong since he was a child, and after dozens of bloody battles, his actual combat experience is no less than that of Li Shimin, and he has developed the style of a famous general. He only thought about it for a moment to understand Li Shimin's intentions, and when he saw the Tang cavalry coming from afar, he sneered, these five thousand cavalry are magnificent, and they should be speaking wildly, and they want to compete with the Xuanjia Army.

The Mo Dao Men were in a row of two hundred people, a total of thirty rows, they were lined up neatly, Mo Dao was like a sharp forest in the night wind, although they stood quietly, but the killing intent they contained in their bodies had reached the critical point of detonation.

As the Red Armor Army rushed like a black torrent, the sharp weapons of the Sui Army finally appeared in front of the Red Armor Army, and the sharp Mo knife was swung out, the handle was deeply inserted into the earth, and the tip of the knife was densely gathered. Aimed at the roaring Red Armor Army.

The Red Armor Army had already rushed to a dozen paces away, and the cavalry in front of them looked at the dense sword forest in front of them, they all shouted, and even the war horses neighed miserably, they could not change their tragic fate. Charging on the battlefield is to go forward and follow, a soldier stops, it will affect the charge of the soldiers behind, and the requirements for the cavalry are higher, the war horse is galloping, if the reins suddenly stop, it will be trampled into flesh by the friendly forces behind, and going forward is the only way to live.

The Red Armor Army hit the hard reef like a strong tide, but the final result was that the waves were smashed into pieces, and the Red Armor Army crashed into the dense Mo Knife, and in an instant, the flesh and blood flew sideways, the limbs were shattered, and the blood mist was filled.

The smell of dust and dirt raised in the air also turned into a pungent smell of blood, which made people want to vomit, and as the shock wave dissipated, a wall of flesh made of broken corpses appeared in front of the Mo Dao array, about five zhang wide and half a mile long. Horse corpses and human corpses are unrecognizable. Some of the soldiers of the Red Armor Army who died were stabbed to death by Mo's knife, and more were trampled to death by their companions behind.

But for the Mo Dao Hands, this is the inevitable result of the cavalry attacking the Mo Dao Formation. They have become accustomed to turning a blind eye, and the cavalry is thundering and rushing, the most powerful is the first wave, as long as they withstand this wave, the impact force behind will be greatly weakened. Although the waves of the Red Armor Army were like a raging wave, the Mo Swordsmen were like a reef on the seashore, allowing the enemy cavalry to attack, but they stood majestically.

Under Shi Jin's shout, the second row of Mo knife hands crossed the front row, Mo knife slashed out, stepping on the corpse of the enemy step by step towards the Red Armor Army, and then the third row has alternately gone up, the wide and smooth street is the paradise of Mo knife hands, they cycle alternately on the battlefield invincible, like a copper wall, corpses everywhere they pass, blood flows like a river......

Seeing that the Red Armor Army was slaughtered without the power to fight back caused by several years of hard work, Li Shimin was dizzy on his horse, and the Mo Knife Array was like a meat grinder that kept harvesting the lives of the Red Armor Army, they not only slashed the enemy in front of them one by one, but also took a solid step, step by step, and gradually suppressed the Red Armor Army's formation backwards, making it difficult for the Red Armor Army to use the speed advantage to bring them collision damage

Helpless, they can only use hand crossbows to fire, dense crossbow arrows shoot at the Mo Dao Army from the front, but their armor is made of stainless steel, only the bed crossbow can shoot through, the general bow and crossbow are within thirty paces range, there is nothing to do with them, and Yang Tong In order to be safe, each Mo Dao hand also wears a face armor. The arrows were like a storm, clanging on the heavy armor, but no one was shot down, and the Mo Dao Army still came step by step.

It was only at this moment that Li Shimin, who was pale and chilled, knew how unfair it was for the Tang monarchs and ministers to disdain the ridicule of the Eastern and Western Turks, who had suffered a devastating blow.

It's not that the Eastern and Western Turks have poor combat power, it's that the Sui army is too fierce! This devilish army that cuts the Red Armor Army as a vegetable is simply a nightmare for cavalry, what cavalry archery and what chain piercing techniques that the Red Armor Army usually practices is simply a big joke in front of this army, your bow and arrow, hand crossbow can't kill him, what kind of riding and archery are you talking about? You can't even get past the first row of people, and you're wearing a fart chisel.

It was also at this time that Li Shimin knew that in addition to the invincible iron cavalry and sharp weapons and equipment of the Sui army, there was such a big killing weapon.

When the Red Armor Army was slaughtered, the battle situation on the left and right sides was quite tragic, and the two soldiers and horses were killed in one place, and in an instant, swords and swords appeared, and flesh and blood flew sideways.

As the battle continued, the superiority of the Sui army was manifested.

First of all, the quality of the soldiers, the soldiers of the Sui Army have defeated one strong enemy after another over the years, they are brave and good at fighting, and after the military reform, they are selected to form an army, and the soldiers of the ten major legions may be the elite of the elite, and the combat effectiveness and will to fight naturally do not need to be said.

As for the Tang army, when facing soft persimmons like Liang Shidu and Xiao Milling, there is indeed an invincible will to fight, even with the strong army of Wang Shichong, who has been fighting all year round, they are not afraid, but when they face the Sui army, they are a little shorter above the congenital, just because they will lose every Sui and lose the Battle of Bingzhou, the Battle of Liangzhou, and the Battle of Guanzhong...... The Battle of Xiangcheng was lost, the Battle of Hongnong was lost, and even all the small and medium-sized battles were not won once, and the Sui army was unconsciously chilled.

Although these tens of thousands of Tang troops are elite, they are equivalent to the Sui army that has been winning battles, most of the Tang army are new recruits, because the previous Tang army has been beaten by the Sui army almost fine, so in terms of bravery, individual soldier quality, and fighting will, the Sui army is too bad, if you fight a legion war in the wilderness, this gap can be made up by the command ability of the main general, but in a melee and a chaotic war, this gap will appear.

In the previous more than half a month of offensive and defensive battles, the slave soldiers not only fought the morale and energy of the Tang army, but also fought more than 30,000 people, so now even if there are no slave soldiers, the Sui army also has an advantage in numbers, and it is energetic and more ferocious.

As the battle continued to the time, no one could withdraw from the battlefield, who withdrew from the battlefield first would mean a fiasco, after more than two hours of fierce fighting, the war became a contest of will and physical strength, the impact of the Sui army's siege for more than half a month, at this critical moment suddenly showed.

The physical strength of the Tang army, which was not energetic, decreased greatly, and the consequence of the decline in physical strength was an increase in casualties, on the contrary, the Sui army became more and more courageous and grasped the initiative in the war with a speed visible to the naked eye.

The Tang army of the three routes was forced to retreat step by step, and there was a tendency to move closer to the center of the city, if this continued, the Tang army would shrink into a group, and then fall into the encirclement of the Sui army.

"Your Highness, the Sui army is too fierce, and the brothers can't hold it anymore. If we continue like this, our depth will shrink step by step, and we will not even be able to wield a knife. ”

"Yes, Your Highness! At that time, it will be crowded, and a single cross arrow will be used to kill a large area. ”

In the center of the city, a large number of Tang troops were gathered, and Li Shimin's Red Armor Army was finished, but the Red Armor Army did not sacrifice in vain, at least Li Shimin discovered the bulky and inflexible characteristics of the Mo Dao Hand, and commanded the foot soldiers to push the spare rolling wood to the Mo Dao Hand, although the Mo Dao could cut the rolling wood, it still brought great trouble to the Mo Dao Hand, effectively preventing the Mo Dao Army from expanding the battlefield.

Li Shimin, whose face sank like water, said to Zheng Rentai on the side: "Rentai, you go and help Liu Hongji on the right!" ”

"No!" Zheng Rentai gave up his hand, picked up a big knife, and rushed to the battlefield that Liu Hongji was in charge of.

Zheng Rentai was one of the main generals of the Red Armor Army, and most of the Tang Army knew him, and when he saw him coming, he forcibly made way for him.

At this moment, Gao Yan was still commanding the army to fight in the back, and although Zheng Rentai's strength was not very high, he was brave and difficult in front of the Sui soldiers.

Seeing that Zheng Rentai was quite brave, a soldier quickly informed Xue Wanjun, who was watching the battle at the city gate: "General, the Tang army sent a general over, this person is extremely brave, and he led the Tang army to press our army back step by step. ”

When Xue Wanjun heard this, he smiled coldly and said: "The fierce generals went into battle, which means that the Tang army is about to be unable to hold on, and plans to tear apart the encirclement and pass the order, so that Shi Jin, Gao Yan, and Yu Zhan will hand over the command to the deputy generals, and each lead a brigade of elites to deal with the generals of the Tang army." ”

Shi Jin, Gao Yan, and Yu Zhan were the external staff assigned by Yang Dong to Xue Wanjun, and without the command of the three of them, the army would still be able to run freely.

"Whoa!" The three heralds rushed to the three battlefields.

After Gao Yan received the order, he immediately handed over the task, and walked forward with a brigade of soldiers, and at a glance, he really saw a tall Tang Army general holding a heavy knife to kill his own soldiers and retreat, wasn't that Li Shimin's guard general Zheng Rentai?

Gao Yan, who recognized this guy, was immediately excited, took three steps and made two steps, and rushed straight towards Zheng Rentai.

Zheng Rentai was kicking a Sui soldier to the ground, and was about to swing a knife to kill, only to hear a "clanging" sound, I don't know when, under his big knife, there was another horizontal knife, Zheng Rentai's blow was naturally blocked by this extra horizontal knife.

"Children looking for death?"

Gao Yan recognized Zheng Rentai, Zheng Rentai didn't know Gao Yan, a handsome little white face who didn't talk like anything, he only thought that he was the son of a powerful man of the Sui Dynasty who mixed military achievements.

Gao Yan kept in mind the concept of "don't talk nonsense if you can do it on the battlefield", he didn't say a word, and when Zheng Rentai was a little weak, he shook Zheng Rentai's war knife away with his backhand, and immediately slashed Zheng Rentai on the head with a knife.

Zheng Rentai hurriedly raised his knife to resist, and in a hurry, he was shocked by Gao Yan and retreated.

This is the place where the two torrents meet, crowded and crowded, Zheng Rentai retreated, and hit the soldier behind him, the weapons in the soldier's hand all forward, he happened to hit the blade of the gun in the hand of a soldier, and was stabbed by the blade of the gun.

"I ......" Zheng Rentai only felt a sharp pain, and looked down to see a bloody blade in his abdomen.

"You ......" The Tang soldier who stabbed Zheng Rentai innocently let go of the gun in his hand and stood in place at a loss.

"Haha, I'm laughing to death......" Seeing that Zheng Rentai was actually stabbed by his own people, Gao Yan laughed so much that his stomach almost cramped, stepped forward and cut off Zheng Rentai's head, laughed and rushed towards Tang Jun, kicking the Tang Jun who had made great contributions to the ground, "Haha, take this hero away, don't forget, Zheng Rentai's head." ”

"Whoa!"

Several Sui soldiers stepped forward and laughed and arrested the innocent Tang soldier, and one of them shoved Zheng Rentai's head into his arms.

With the addition of three strong generals and more generals, the situation quickly turned around, and it showed a one-sided situation again.

At this time, Li Shimin had retreated to the vicinity of the south gate of Guancheng, and the generals were also summoned by him......

Li Shimin gritted his teeth, shook his head and refused: "Xue Wanjun still hasn't moved, I think there is still a way to win in our hands, even if we are stable for a while, we will still lose in the end." Now that the Sui army is temporarily restrained by these soldiers, we can just get away, if we turn back to fight, I'm afraid that none of them will be able to get out... Let's go first. ”

"This ......"

The generals were dumbfounded.

"Come with me!" Li Shimin turned south with red eyes, and shouted: "It's a foregone conclusion here, and no one can turn the tide; In addition to the wounded soldiers, there are also 20,000 elite horsemen around you, and if we don't lead the troops, we will definitely become the souls of the Sui saber in the rear. ”

When the generals heard this, they sighed in their hearts, knowing that Li Shimin, who made such a decision, was the most painful person, and they also knew that his decision was right.

Li Shimin rode on a horse, whipped the war horse hard, and with the faint glimmer of water, he went south along the coast, and before he knew it, he was already in tears, and he didn't even dare to turn his head.

Defeated again!

Another big defeat and loss, almost all the army was wiped out!

All ambitions, all extravagant hopes and aspirations, at this moment, all dissipated in the night breeze.

150,000 of the most elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, under his leadership, conquered Luoyang, but lost their armor and were defeated......

How can he explain to his father? And how to deal with the families of those soldiers?

Li Shimin's whole heart has been completely swallowed by humiliation, he gritted his teeth and wept, and the walking corpse believed in the territory. As for whether there is a Sui army ahead...... He didn't bother at all.

I don't know how long, the sky is getting brighter, and the sound of hooves behind him is gradually complicated and dull, looking back, the generals gathered to a lot of soldiers and gradually gathered behind them, but everyone looked defeated, riding on the horse and silent.

The sound of hooves clicked, and the four fields became more and more empty.

Looking at the sparse soldiers, the total is less than 5,000......

At the time of the expedition, the mighty army of 150,000 supported Li Shimin's vigorous ambitions, but who would have thought how long it would take? The soldiers will be lost, and the whole army will not be one out of ten?