Xue Ju gave the order, collected 200,000 elite troops, set off from Yongcheng, the seat of Fufeng County, and marched north, the first target was Beidi County, where the Tang army was stationed.

The army was mighty, with strong armor, 30,000 cavalry, 30,000 bows and arrows, and the rest were infantry squares.

The additional baggage team, as many as tens of thousands of logistics soldiers, requisitioned 50,000 strong men to be responsible for loading and unloading grain and grass, and manufacturing siege equipment.

"Boom!"

The iron hooves galloped, the ground shook the mountains, the dust flew, and marched towards the northern county.

The villagers along the way were surprised when they saw it, because it looked like a steel dragon, with shining armor and spears like a forest, and it was murderous.

The travel of the three armies, like a mountain collapsing, the majesty of the momentum, the number of people, and the strength of the armor, make people have to sigh, and only human beings can gather so many individuals so neatly and fight for a certain interest.

Although the weapons and equipment of the Western Qin were inferior to those of the Northwest Army, they basically had one blade in each hand, spears, horizontal knives and short axes, and continued to move forward.

The accompanying generals included Zong Luo, Chang Zhongxing, Zhuge Feng, Tuoba Hong, and Huo Shanjing. The strategists include Chu Liang, Hao Zhan, and Cao Yulang.

200,000 soldiers and horses were invincible, and the garrison of Beidi County was only 40,000, and it was not the main force of the Tang army.

Soon, the Western Qin army occupied several cities in Beidi County and encamped in the area of the shallow water plain on the south bank of Jingshui.

……..

Three days after the army marched, Daxingcheng received news from the border.

Li Shimin, the commander of Zhenxi, announced his appointment a year ago, and after the Lantern Festival, he arrived at the border of Jingzhao County to garrison troops, and increased the number of 30,000 horses, reaching 80,000.

Li Shimin learned that the Western Qin army was attacking Beidi County, and led his troops to block the attack and meet the Western Qin.

His subordinates took Murong Luo, Li Anyuan, Liu Hongji, Yin Kaishan, Liu Wenjing, Duan Zhixuan, Zhao Wenke, Fang Xuanling, Lei Yongji, Zhang Gongjin, Cui Shu and other military generals Wenmou to the north, entered Beidi County, and came to Gaocheng.

Takaseong is an important town in Hokkaichi-gun, next to the shallow water plain, and is an important route from Hokkaichi to Gyeongso-gun.

Li Shimin's soldiers and horses converged with the 20,000 defenders of the city, and gathered 100,000 troops to garrison, confident that they could block the attack of Western Qin.

………

"Newspaper"

A horse galloped forward, with a triangular red flag on his back, fluttering in the wind, and the guards with knives outside the tent gave way one after another, this is a scout messenger who transmits information, and there is an urgent military situation.

The scout jumped off his horse, hurried to the big tent, knelt on one knee, and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, Li Tang's army is stationed in Gaocheng, and the commander is Li Shimin, leading an army of 100,000. ”

Xue Ju in the tent heard this, put down his hand and folded it on the table, listened to the information of the messenger, nodded slightly, and said: "I know, explore again!" ”

"Whoa!" The Scout Courier gets up and exits.

Xue Ju got up and looked at the sand table map, and sneered: "This Li Tang army came quickly, I thought they would delay for a long time, since they came, it was just right to annihilate this group of people and horses, weaken the living force of Jingzhao County, lure the snake out of the hole, and besiege the city to send reinforcements, which is exactly what I want." ”

This Xue Ju knows some art of war, he knows very well that Li Tang's army also has more than 200,000 people, if they are all gathered in Jingzhao County, he leads the troops to push over, the number is equal, and the other party comes from afar, and the other party waits for work, then the supply time of the Western Qin army will be long, and there will be problems.

Therefore, Xue Ju chose to attack the north first, to feed the war with war, and used the grain and grass captured here as the military rations for this attack on Jingzhao County, which reduced the logistical pressure and material supply in the rear.

At the same time, to lure the Tang army out and fight in the north, Xue Ju was stationed in the shallow water early to wait, let the soldiers rest, turn passive to active, wait for work, and rise and fall.

Xue Ju sent Zong Luo to guard the upper reaches of Jingshui, a few miles northwest of Gaocheng, and could launch an offensive at any time and attack from both sides.

The construction of siege equipment requires a process, moat bridges, folding ladders, watchtower cars, stone throwers, rushing cars, etc., which require a large number of skilled craftsmen, fortunately, the Western Qin prepared some years ago, and now many prisoners and local people have been captured, and a large number of instruments are being manufactured.

A few days later, the Western Qin army finally began to attack the city.

The soldiers of the two sides clashed fiercely, arrows rained down, stones were thrown fiercely, a small high city, almost on all sides was secretly numb crowds, fighting in blood.

"Kill"

"Break the city! "Some sword-wielding soldiers roared loudly, and when they climbed, they jumped vertically, stepped up the ladder, dodged arrows and rolling logs, and charged at the head of the city.

However, there were many Tang troops at the head of the city, and these soldiers who climbed to the head of the city were none of the ten, and they were quickly beaten up, cut into pieces, and their limbs were cut off, which was very bloody and miserable.

After a day of fighting, corpses were piled up inside and outside the city.

By the time the Tang army cleaned up the city, countless corpses were moved down the city, whether they were enemies or comrades-in-arms, they were dragged down the city like tattered dolls, or pushed down, and carried by a cart to the pit in the city, burned and buried, so as to prevent the corpses from smelling and producing corpse plague.

Outside the city, during the truce at dusk, the corpses were also dragged away and burned and buried in the wild.

The next day, the army attacked again, regardless of sacrifices, with flesh and blood, pounced on it, doomed to be miserable.

"Kill!"

The Western Qin army and the Tang army were fighting at the cost of life and death, and Li Shimin and a group of generals stood in the city tower to watch, and the windows were all defended by barbed wire to resist the arrows.

After the experience of the last attack on Daxingcheng, Li Shimin finally honed and grew up and became the commander of one side as he wished.

He was just nineteen years old, and he was not yet weak, but he had the experience and ability to command an army of 100,000.

However, because he has not read much about the art of war and books since he was a child, Li Shimin now feels that he needs to learn from experience in actual combat, and he also needs to read more ancient books and the art of war.

This day was fought from morning to afternoon, and still did not break through the high city.

When the sound of the call for the troops finally sounded, the three armies retreated like a tide, and the faces of the soldiers showed exhaustion and deep confusion.

On the night of the same day, Xue Ju gathered his strategists, wanting to find a plan that could break the enemy and win, and defeated the Tang army.

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