Zhang Xianzhong made up his mind and immediately began to dispatch troops and act quickly.

Soon, when the Tang army was still assembling, Zhang Xianzhong had recruited and mobilized 200,000 soldiers and horses in Chengdu. Immediately, as previously planned, let Pingdong General Sun Kewang lead 50,000 soldiers and horses to Baoning Mansion to join Liu Jinzhong's troops of more than 10,000 people stationed there, and prepare to fight against the 11th Town of the Tang Army here.

And Zhang Xianzhong himself, the so-called emperor of the Great Western Kingdom, was the pro-commander of the 150,000 army, with a mighty momentum, rushed from Chengdu to Tongchuan Prefecture, which was garrisoned by his general Ma Yuanli, and was ready to hold on to the city here and block the main road for the Tang army to march to the city.

In Chengdu City, 50,000 soldiers and horses were left behind, and the general Bai Wenxuan was allowed to lead the defense of the city to protect this most important capital and base.

Zhang Xianzhong's actions were immediately detected by the Tang Army Security Department, and they were quickly reported to Li Xiao, the king of Tang.

Li Xiao got the information and after a little analysis, he knew that Zhang Xianzhong was now planning to defend the two gateways of Chengdu, Baoning Mansion and Tongchuan Prefecture, and he was going to fight to the death with himself.

As for Shunqing Mansion, which the Tang army was going to attack first, because it was far away from Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong's troops were insufficient, so he had no choice but to give up.

Li Xiao immediately made a decision and immediately ordered that Zeng Ying's soldiers and horses of the tenth town and the soldiers and horses of Monk An's second town should attack the east and west together, and they must take Shunqing Mansion as soon as possible.

Then, the soldiers and horses of the Ying army were stationed in Shunqing Mansion and Chongqing in Xuzhou, and the soldiers and horses of the second town of Monk Rang'an immediately went north, preparing to attack Baoning Mansion together with Mo Changrong's eleventh town soldiers and horses. It is necessary to take Baoning Mansion as soon as possible, and completely annihilate the soldiers and horses of Sun Kewang and Liu Jinzhong, a total of more than 60,000 people.

Li Xiao's order reached the front line, and all units of the Tang Army immediately acted according to the plan.

Zeng Ying's 10th town soldiers and horses and Monk An's 2nd town soldiers and horses, divided from the east and west, led the troops all the way to attack Shunqing Mansion.

Because Zhang Xianzhong had already decided to abandon Shunqing Mansion, the troops and horses of the Tang Army on the two routes advanced very smoothly, quickly occupied Guang'an, Yingshan, Quxian, Linshan and other county seats, and quickly encircled Nanchong, the capital of Shunqing Mansion.

The soldiers and horses left behind in Nanchong were only a few hundred, and when they saw the overwhelming army of the Tang Army coming, they were already frightened and weak, so they immediately opened the door and surrendered under the leadership of the local governor.

So far, the Tang army successfully captured Shunqing Mansion and preliminarily completed the campaign objectives.

Then, Zeng Ying's troops were stationed in Shunqing Province, as well as Xuzhou and Chongqing, while Monk An led his troops north to attack the southern counties at the southern end of Baoning Province.

At this time, the soldiers and horses of the 11th Town of the Tang Army had entered Baoning Mansion from Tieshan Pass in Kuizhou, and went all the way to attack Tongjiang County.

After getting the information that the Tang army was attacking from two directions, Sun Kewang, the chief general of Baoning Mansion, was suddenly shocked.

He originally thought that after the Tang army took Shunqing Mansion and the tenth town and the second town converged, it would go all out to the east and attack Tongchuan Prefecture, which was personally garrisoned by Zhang Xianzhong, the emperor of Daxi. But he didn't expect that the Tang army was dividing its troops in Shunqing Mansion, ordering the soldiers and horses of the second town to attack Baoning in the north, and the soldiers and horses of the eleventh town of the Tang Army attacking from the east formed a two-way attack, and it seemed that they were going to take the Baoning Mansion they were stationed in one fell swoop.

What worries Sun Kewang even more is that according to the original plan, in order to fight against the soldiers and horses of the eleventh town of the Tang army, Sun Kewang has transferred a large number of soldiers and horses to the Bazhou area, and relied on the water to form a defensive line to resist the attack of the Tang army.

And when Langzhong is besieged and the main force cannot retreat, the soldiers and horses of the entire Boryeong Mansion City will be annihilated separately, and there will be no more left.

As the main general, when he reached such a situation, he either died at the hands of the Tang Army, or after fleeing back to Chengdu, he was beheaded by the angry Zhang Xianzhong, which was simply a nightmare result.

No, we must take countermeasures to stop the Tang army from taking such actions before the Tang army arrives.

Therefore, Sun Kewang immediately decided to let Liu Jinzhong take nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses to continue to block the place in order to block the soldiers and horses of the 11th town of the Tang Army, and he himself was to lead 20,000 elite soldiers to immediately retreat from the defense line and deploy in Langzhong City, preparing to fight to the death with the soldiers and horses of the 2nd Town of the Tang Army.

Sun Kewang considered that the Tang army was powerful, and even if he acted like this, he was afraid that the troops would be insufficient and that there would be some mistakes, so he urgently sent people to Tongchuan Prefecture. Let the Emperor of the Great West, Zhang Xianzhong, quickly send a general and lead 50,000 soldiers and horses to help solve the urgent need of Baoning Mansion.

Soon, Sun Kewang's letter for help was delivered to the capital of Tongchuan Prefecture at an expedited speed of 800 miles and handed to Zhang Xianzhong.

Seeing this letter written by Sun Kewang himself, Zhang Xianzhong was also shocked.

During this period of time, he deployed heavy troops in various key areas of Tongchuan Prefecture to strictly prevent the Tang army from attacking Tongchuan Prefecture from Shunqing Mansion, but he did not expect that the Tang Army's final action plan was to go north after taking Shunqing Mansion, wanting to seize Baoning Mansion with all his might.

Zhang Xianzhong knew that once Baoning Mansion was lost, the northern gateway of Chengdu would be opened, and the Tang army could drive straight in, bypassing Tongchuan Prefecture and directly attacking Chengdu Mansion. If Chengdu is lost, the fall of the Great Western Kingdom will be in an instant.

Zhang Xianzhong thought of this, suddenly felt cold sweat all over his body, he didn't have time to think about it, and immediately ordered his general Ma Yuanli, commanding 50,000 soldiers and horses, to urgently go north to Baoning Mansion for reinforcements.

Ma Yuanli took the order, and a group of soldiers and horses hurried to Baoning Mansion, but unexpectedly, when he was about to reach the boundary of Baoning, he was detected by the sentinels of the second town of the Tang Army, and immediately returned to the Chang'an monk of the second town of the Tang Army.

When Monk An got the news, he couldn't help but stroking his palms and laughing.

Monk An knew that now Ma Yuanli's 50,000 soldiers and horses were coming all the way, in order to come to Baoning Mansion as soon as possible, the reconnaissance and sentinels on the road would be very careless, so that he could give them a head attack and defeat them in one fell swoop, or even wipe them all out.

Monk An immediately opened the map, and Haosheng checked it, and finally decided to take the area of Liubianyi to meet Ma Yuanli's soldiers and horses.

Because Ma Yuanli's soldiers and horses have arrived at the border with Tongchuan Prefecture in Fucun Town, then the next place must pass through is this Liubian Station, which is backed by Xiaotongshui, the terrain is open, presenting an arc-shaped plain landform, which is just conducive to the Tang Army's artillery troops to fight and release, as well as the Tang Army's cavalry to attack strongly.

"Passing on my military order, the whole army turned to the northwest, went to the Liubian Post to set up a formation, and after defeating the enemy's reinforcements, then entered the siege!" Monk An ordered loudly.

"Order!"

The Tang Army's second town, with nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses, immediately deviated from the original route and went north along Xiaotongshui to Liubianyi in the northwest, and arrived there after about an hour.

At this time, the people of the Great Western Kingdom here, seeing the arrival of the army, had already fled completely, and the Tang army was no longer hindered, and immediately relied on Xiaotongshui on their backs and began to set up a formation.

The main part of the front is the gun and shield battle formation formed by the three battalions of soldiers and horses, and the left and right wings are the heavy infantry battle formation composed of rampant members. Behind the spear and shield battle array, there were a group of auxiliary soldiers with a large number of individual soldiers on their waists.

The entire cavalry of the Tang Army was divided into two divisions and hid in the woods outside the city. Their task is to wait for the enemy to attack, completely cut off the enemy's retreat, and strive to encircle and destroy them.

Then, Monk An decided to put all 90 heavy dragon bombers of the Tang Army at the front of the gun and shield battle array on the road in front of Xiaotong Shui, and make a posture of attacking together.

This formation, the Tang army has been used many times, whether it is in Xuzhou to attack Huang Degong's department, or in Annan to attack Zheng Jie's department, or outside Yancheng to eliminate Hao Shaoqi's department, they have been skillfully used, and the results are quite fruitful, so Monk An did not hesitate to plan here, still set up the same artillery array, to Ma Yuanli, who came in a hurry, to give a headache.

When Monk An's formation was completed, the 50,000 soldiers and horses of Ma Yuanli's department over there had also arrived in a hurry.

The army of 50,000 went all the way north, winding and winding, like a long gray dragon that could not see its head and tail. They marched with all their might, and they didn't notice the Tang army sentry cavalry in the distance, who were paying close attention to their movements, and they would never have thought that in fact, their every move had been closely observed by the Tang army, and their whereabouts were under control.

"General Ma, there is Liubian Post in front, and you can cross the Xiaotong River from here, and you can go to Langzhong, the capital of Baoning."

A dusty guard, who rode forward to the place where Ma Yuanli was traveling, stretched out his arm, pointed to the shadowy willow side post in front of him, and shouted to him.

Huang Degong looked along Tian Xiong's arm, and saw the vague willow edge post in front of him, for some reason, he had been in battle for a long time, but there was an ominous premonition in his heart for no reason, which made his expression more and more solemn.

What is the situation in Boryeong Mansion now, Ma Yuanli has no bottom in his heart, he has no idea what the situation is now.

It's just that, out of the instinct of the battlefield, in this place that is about to reach Langzhong, he still keenly feels the unspeakable danger.

"The whole army slowed down its march, formed a battle formation, searched and marched all the way, and strictly guarded against enemy surprise attacks." Ma Yuanli's face was grim, and he ordered in a deep voice.

"Yasukuni Gong, now that our army has come all the way north, we have not seen any enemy troops, and I think that the enemy soldiers are attacking the southern counties with all their might, and they have no spare strength to take care of other places. We are very close to Langzhong, can we order the 50,000 soldiers to speed up and rush to Langzhong City to join General Sun Kewang's headquarters and horses? The guard frowned and objected.

"It's hard to say." Ma Yuanli sighed and said: "The Tang Army's two-way army is attacking, and its attack power is very strong and terrifying, and Baoning Mansion is already very dangerous. When our army fights such a fierce enemy, we must not underestimate the enemy, and we must be cautious, and the most important thing is to act. ”

As soon as Ma Yuan's profit was finalized, the whole army immediately began to form a team on the spot, and then searched all the way forward, although the precautions were thorough, but the speed of the team's march was greatly affected.

In this way, it gave the Tang army enough time to prepare, so that Monk An could fully set up an ambush, and waited for the 50,000 soldiers and horses of Ma Yuanli's department to come from the net.

At noon, the soldiers and horses of Huang Degong's troops on the horizon finally appeared in the sight of all the Tang troops after a long journey.

At this time, Huang Degong, from the clairvoyant mirror, saw the banner of Liu Liangzuo's soldiers and horses in Huai'an Mansion City, and the largest stone in his heart finally landed.

"General, look, there seems to be an enemy army in front of you!"

When he was about to arrive at the Liubian Station, the guard next to Ma Yuanli had sharp eyes, pointed to the dusty front, and shouted at Ma Yuanli.

Ma Yuanli was shocked when he heard this, but he quickly saw clearly from the clairvoyant mirror that it was the huge banner of the Tang Army with black letters on a red background fluttering in the wind. It seems that the soldiers and horses in front of him are undoubtedly the Tang Army.

At this moment, he could hardly believe his own eyes.

Damn, how did this guy come to this Liubian Post from the south, it's good, he just caught himself off guard, it's really hateful!

Ma Yuanli scolded a swear word fiercely, but he had no time to analyze what went wrong that made the Tang Army, which was supposed to attack the southern county, come here instead. Because, at this time, he saw the Tang army soldiers and horses on the opposite side, and put on a very strange formation.

The most striking thing is that the Tang army has a total of 90 huge heavy dragon bombardment guns, which are all placed at the front of the infantry and cavalry battle array, forming a posture of attacking together.

Seeing that the Tang army was so magnificent and the military appearance was so neat, Ma Yuanli was annoyed in his heart and couldn't help but scold.

Hmph, if you are in such a formation, will I be afraid that you will not succeed!

I just don't want to, such thoughts flashed in my heart, but Ma Yuanli's heart was inexplicably worried.

In fact, along the way, Ma Yuanli, who commanded 50,000 soldiers and horses to rush to reinforcements, looked preoccupied and worried.

That is, Ma Yuanli was very worried that although he came here in a hurry, he was likely to be attacked by the Tang army, and he could only be forced to fight head-on with the Tang army.

I was in a hurry all the way, and the number of weapons and armor was actually insufficient, not to mention, there were about 20,000 soldiers among them, who were newly recruited, and these people were strong and powerful, but if they were to start fighting immediately, the consequences would be disastrous.

It's just that now it seems that this sudden face-to-face battle is inevitable.

Ma Yuanli's gaze crossed the array of imposing artillery, and immediately saw that the Tang Army's infantry and cavalry battle formation was also a solemn appearance, and its strict formation, looking through the snow curtain from a distance, made people's hearts chill.

Tang Jun is so leisurely, is he really sure that he can fight?

As he approached, he could see clearly that the Tang army's array of personnel numbered tens of thousands, and he was afraid that it was the same as the number of his own soldiers and horses, and it seemed that neither side was sure of victory, but the Tang army had so many artillery to help, so he would rush over and fight with it, but he was afraid that he would pay a lot of sacrifices.

So, is it too late to withdraw now?

No, it doesn't.

Most of the soldiers and horses under his command are infantry, and the soldiers and horses of the Tang army on the opposite side, the total number of cavalry is about thousands, and there seem to be a lot of cavalry hidden in the small woods in the distance.

Perhaps, as soon as the cavalry of the Tang Army pursues and kills them, they and all their soldiers and horses will all die here in an extremely humiliating way.

At this moment, Ma Yuanli suddenly felt endless regret in his heart.

Exercise! I knew that the Tang Army had such a powerful artillery, and I had predicted my own course of action in advance, so I was simply asking for my own death by bringing troops here.

Ma Yuanli let out a long sigh, but his face turned hideous.

Damn, since you will die if you run away now, it is better to fight to the death with Tang Jun, and come to him to break the net!

Perhaps, this is the only way to survive the death.

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