In fact, the ripples caused by this "small victory" at this time are rapidly spreading.

The most direct consequence was that Li Jiancheng was shocked, immediately shrank his forces and pretended to be a turtle again.

This time, he couldn't blame his people for using troops to be conservative, and he fought with Wang Shichong, with more than 10,000 casualties, and Sang Xian and his troops lost nearly 10,000 people at Fengling Ferry.

In just half a month, about 30% of the defenders of Tongguan have gone to about 30%, and the morale of the army has been severely damaged, and such heavy casualties have gradually approached the limit of the Tang army.

War is never a numbers game, and the setbacks that an army can withstand are also related to many factors, there is no doubt that the Tongguan defenders, who have rarely experienced tragic battles, have not seen much depression in the wilderness, are full of bones, and have no smoke equipment, let alone have never tried the taste of fighting desperately with people on a hungry belly, and the defeat that they can bear is to this extent.

They are not even as resilient as some of the rebels back then, and perhaps the only thing that is commendable is that their military system is quite complete......

In other words, the fierce Jindi army came to the ribs of the Tang army who were preparing to march forward at the right time, and instantly made the Tang army shrink into a ball in pain, and even lacked the strength to retaliate, just wanting to dodge the blow that seemed to be coming after it.

The people near the East Palace quarreled in Li Jiancheng's ears, punished Sang Xianhe, transferred troops from Li Shenfu to Tongguan, quickly reported to the emperor, concealed the news, and gave the court a good news and not bad news, and so on.

Compared with these noisy sounds that came into Li Jiancheng's ears, there was a dead silence in Tongguan.

The tall wall of Tongguan not only blocked the enemy from the outside, but also seemed to surround the defenders in it, looking at the mountains and rivers outside, fear was like a weed on the ancient road, which quickly multiplied, and it was difficult to pull it out.

After Sang Xianhe returned to Tongguan after his defeat, all kinds of rumors and plagues were quietly circulated in private, and for a large army, such a thing was simply too bad.

The morale of the Tang army plummeted after this battle.

It can be said that the situation faced by Li Jiancheng is very grim, the news of the defeat cannot be concealed, the morale of the army is gradually shaken, not to mention, how to deal with the people of Henan has also become a difficult problem.

Summoned everyone to discuss many times, and the proposal to recapture the Fengling Ferry was severely suppressed by Li Jiancheng, although this is the best way to save the morale of the army, but 20,000 elites went out of the customs to fight and were defeated face-to-face and returned, so how many troops do you need to use to recapture the Fengling Ferry? Do you want Tongguan anymore?

The next question is how to report this matter to the DPRK and the Central Committee, and how to hold on to Li Ding'an after that.

The name Li Ding'an has long been gradually demonized among the generals of the Tang Army, and many generals of the Tongguan garrison have mentioned Li Ding'an in Jindi, and they will contemptuously say a few words about their shortcomings to show their strength.

But if this demon wields a sharp sword and is full of flames, and really appears alive in front of him, and it looks too terrifying, everything that this name represents will gradually become clear in people's hearts.

Fortunately, they don't have to fight with Li Ding'an, Tongguan is tall and strong, and Li Shenfu is stationed on the west bank of the Yellow River.

Once such a strategy was proposed, everyone felt much more at ease, so the idea of seeking no merit but no fault once again took over.

And this time is different from the face of Wang Shichong's Henan army, when facing Wang Shichong, it can be said that there are many choices, if everyone has the confidence to defeat Wang Shichong, then this choice is full of embarrassing helplessness.

The entire battle of Tongguan was full of tragedy for the Tang army at this time, and the process was too dramatic, with ups and downs, which tested the spiritual endurance of the Tang army.

Wang Shichong's army of more than 200,000 people was wiped out under Tongguan, and there were many unexpected places in the middle, but in the end they still won, but the end was a battle of 20,000 or 30,000 people that ruined everything.

This kind of contrast and contrast makes people fall into a dream, and even some people are thinking, things shouldn't be like this, how did it become like this?

In the military, Li Jiancheng was in a hurry, and when he turned his head and reported to Chang'an, he immediately became familiar with it.

First of all, he made people play in the Chang'an Dynasty, Tongguan was victorious, defeated Wang Shichong nearly 300,000, won countless people, and surrendered a large number of people, and only at the end of the euphemistic mention, Tongguan had few soldiers, so that he could not be appeased in full success, so that Wang Shichong was able to escape and leave.

The good news was sent out on the front foot, and then Li Jiancheng wrote another handwritten letter, asking his henchmen to go straight to Chang'an, which was a private letter he wrote to his father.

He described the before and after of the battle, and on the letter, he did not deceive at all, detailed the before and after of the war, and showed that he was not good at leading the troops, so that he missed the opportunity, and he was afraid that he would not be able to enter Henan later.

One bright and one dark, sent two telegrams, and Li Jiancheng immediately ordered the whole army to wait for the enemy.

At this time, someone proposed that he wanted to detain the black cauldron to Sang Xianhe and Ren Can, who died in battle, in order to reduce the guilt of the East Palace.

The person who proposed was severely reprimanded by Sang Xianhe, and gently comforted Sang Xianhe, Wei Ting and others, the effect was really good, and people's hearts were much calmer.

Li Jiancheng was not short of such means, he was worried about the subsequent war and the chaos of the Qin Wangfu in the court, but he still suppressed the idea of passing the book to the court and the central government, so that they could ease their cheeks in the court.

Because in his opinion, this battle has been torn apart, he is not in the capital, the more he talks, the easier it is to be found to attack, it is better to wait for his father's ruling.

He also believes that the news will not be hidden for a long time, and it will be transmitted back to Chang'an, and at that time, it is actually his father's mind that he will see, and he has been deeply touched by this over the years.

In fact, Li Jiancheng at this time and Yang Guang in the position of King Jin have become more and more similar in some aspects, leading the troops in front of the army, the strategic and tactical literacy is miserable, but the political IQ is clearly online, so the war that occurred when they led the army has become a little peculiar.

None of them are incompetent, but the tide of war has taken a turn for the worse in their hands......

Li Jiancheng has already racked his brains in the aftermath, and he has not forgotten to send the old minister Li Gang to appease the Henan people, but then again, these generals of the Henan army have heard countless good words whether they are under Li Mi or under the rule of Wang Shichong, but whether it is Li Mi, the Duke of Wei, or Wang Shichong, Emperor Zheng, they are not not trustworthy people.

So it's really difficult to fool them in a few words, what they value is strength, and the interests that are clearly placed in front of them, and everything else has to stand aside.

Niu Jinda and others are like this, Qin Qiong, Hao Xiaode, Cheng Zhijie and others are no exception.

In front of Li Gang, these Henan people were very honest, bowed their heads to listen to the training, and finally made a very grateful appearance, but after leaving Li Gang's sight, it was not them.

When the news that Sang Xianhe had lost the battle and Li Dingan had led the army across the river into Henan reached the ears of the people in Henan, there was a little lag, but their minds also floated.

Roughly, the Tang Army is like that, if it weren't for Wang Shichong's unkindness and unrighteousness, maybe Tongguan would have been captured by Lao Tzu and so on, and so on, suddenly appeared in the minds of many descendants.

Li Junxian's department first made a fuss because of the "unfair distribution of military rations", this person was originally Wang Shichong's hussar general, leading Wang Shichong's personal army, but because of Li Mi's status as an old general, he was suspicious and was rushed to serve in front of the battle.

This person is a native of Hebei, and later an official soldier, not all the way with Qin Qiong and others, and he is indeed quite excluded among the descendants, but when something happens at this time, it has nothing to do with military rations.

It's just that the others are secretly wooing his subordinates, and the two generals under him feel that it is boring to stay in Tongguan, and want to steal out of Tongguan and go elsewhere.

In fact, this was an infighting among the people of Henan, and at the same time it showed signs of instability in the army of Henan.

As a result, Li Junxian was taken down by Li Gang and imprisoned in Tongguan Prison, and Tang Jun did not need to do it himself, and the chaos quickly subsided.

To be honest, Li Gang's hand is a little soft, in fact, this will Henan people need a head of sufficient weight to deter it, and Li Gang is worried about the reputation of the prince, and he did not cut off Li Junxian's head.

But the people of Henan don't care about this, at that time, Cheng Dabeard privately told Qin Qiong that the people of Kansai have a great reputation, but now it seems that it is not Erer, let's come to the wrong place, right?

Qin Qiong was "upright", not confused, and immediately replied, the prince is benevolent, compared to the Duke of Wei and the prince, both of whom are much stronger, and now we are treated with great kindness, the virtuous brother does not think about him, and he can serve His Royal Highness with peace of mind.

In fact, Qin Qiong saw an opportunity in this, everyone in the East Palace was helpless, and the Tang army was like a mourner, isn't this the time when they, Henan heroes, are working hard? How can you say that you can just go, besides, is a place like Tongguan a place where you can come and go as you want?

So, under the efforts of Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie, the Henan army was completely quiet, and Qin Qiong also took the opportunity to say something for Li Junxian and fished people out of Tongguan Prison.

In this way, Li Jiancheng has a few more "loyal" generals who can fight habitually, but what he doesn't know is that in Luoyang City, such a drama has been staged more than once......

The impact of this battle is still spreading, on the other hand, Li Po, but has largely achieved the strategic purpose set before, with the increasing number of troops at the Fengling Ferry on the south bank, in the next two days, Li Po has really penetrated his tentacles into Henan.