Chapter 821: All or Nothing
When he read the letter just now, Li Shimin wanted to scold people.
He wanted to scold Li Jiancheng for being incompetent, and he had to go out of Tongguan for 200 miles to Hongnong to fight with Luo Cunxiao, and even wanted to scold him for commanding 200,000 horses, but he couldn't beat Luo Cunxiao, who was 20,000 or 30,000.
He desperately withstood the 200,000 army of Xue Rengao of Western Qin here, but Li Jiancheng fought in Hongnong Lang and lost more than 100,000 troops.
He also wanted to scold Li Yuan, at this time, people were panicked, and they needed to strengthen their confidence more and more, but his father shouted that he wanted to move the capital, is this a normal practice?
He is still here to fight against Xue Rengao, if the imperial court moves away from Chang'an, I am afraid that the military spirit here will also be unstable.
If even he loses, then how can they fight for the world?
Originally, he should have spent it with Xue Rengao again, but now that he read this letter, Li Shimin could only find a way to end the war here as soon as possible.
It's time to take the risk.
Otherwise, even if he temporarily blocked the news, he still couldn't hide the news for too long.
Walking to the map, Li Shimin frowned and pondered.
"I have a bold plan, not only to relieve the siege of Changwu, but also to destroy Xue Rengao's 200,000 army."
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Twenty miles west of Changwu City.
Zong Luohu, the general of the Western Qin, led tens of thousands of horses to stare at Changwu City, but there was a brave army, and the Tang army just didn't go out of the city to fight, but the damn Changwu City was extremely dangerous, and it was not their strong point at all.
And now that the food and grass in the army are running out, the emperor is already interested in class.
"Marshal, the Tang army is out of the city, they finally got out of Changwu City and set up a formation in the shallow water outside the city!"
When Zong Luohu heard the news, his excited eyes widened.
I almost can't believe that the Tang army still dares to go out of the city?
"Damn, the Tang Army's food and grass must have run out, and they finally can't hold it anymore and want to go out of the city to fight. Pass my military order, gather soldiers and horses, annihilate the Tang army with me, and kill his mother! ”
As a former army general, Zong Luohu immediately led an army of 50,000 troops in his headquarters and rushed to the Tang army in the shallow water plain with murderous spirit.
What only made Zong Luohu a little depressed was that the Tang army did go out of the city, but they chose a high platform to defend in formation, and they had no intention of coming out for a decisive battle.
This can make Zong Luo angry and crazy.
You don't want to fight, you come out to do the birds, you continue to shrink in the city.
Zong Luohu ordered an attack, but several attacks were in vain.
The Tang army was based on favorable terrain, and although there were few soldiers, it still blocked their onslaught.
"Marshal, Li Shimin's banner has been raised, and he is in that military array." A lieutenant reports.
"Damn, are you really bullying Lao Tzu? Order, all the cavalry are brought up, and Lao Tzu personally leads the charge! ”
Zong Luohu personally held the horse lance and led 20,000 cavalry to charge.
This is an almost crazy charge, Zong Luohu is still very powerful, he also knows that the opportunity is rare, there is no food in the army, and if Li Shimin is not defeated, they can only retreat with hatred, and this retreat, I don't know when I will be able to kill it again next time.
"Capture Li Shimin alive, enter Chang'an City, divide money, food and women!"
Zong Luohu shouted all the way, and the morale of the Western Qin cavalry was high.
Under the onslaught of their fierce cavalry.
Li Shimin's army was hit hard and crumbling.
The Tang army fell one after another, but Li Shimin, who was under Li Shuai, always supervised the battle with a cold face.
If you fall down, you will take another batch.
Constantly return fire with bows and crossbows, and defend the position with guns and shields.
Liang Shi, the former commander of the army, asked Li Shimin to retreat more than once, because the casualties were too great and there was a possibility of collapse at any time.
But Li Shimin still ordered to stick to it.
Although the platform defended by the Tang army had favorable terrain, there was no water source.
The fighting lasted from morning to night, and the soldiers did not drink water for a day, and they were all agitated.
Attacking until dark, Zong Luohu finally reluctantly withdrew his troops and prepared to fight again in the morning.
At night, Li Shimin used lights to communicate with Changwu City.
The soldiers also seized the time to rest, and when there was no water to drink, they killed horses and drank blood.
Li Shimin inspected the barracks, visited the wounded soldiers, comforted the soldiers, told them that victory was at hand, and if they persevered a little longer, they would be able to win a great victory.
Dawn.
Zong Luohu prepared to attack again.
At this time, the gate of Changwu City was opened, and another general manager of the Tang Army, Pet Yu, was ordered by Li Shimin to lead a group to line up in each place in the shallow water plain.
Pang Yu's soldiers and horses were only 5,000, and there was no danger to defend where he was arrayed.
When Zong Luohu saw it, he immediately turned to attack Pang Yu.
The battle lasted only half a morning, and Pet Yu couldn't hold on.
Seeing this, Zong Luohu pressed the whole army and wanted to defeat and annihilate the pet jade in one fell swoop.
When his whole army attacked, at this time, the last 5,000 cavalry in Changwu City had already gone out of the north gate according to Li Shimin's banner order, and bypassed from the north of the shallow water source, and Zong Luohu had to quickly transfer troops to meet the battle.
Seeing Zong Luohu divide his troops into battle, Li Shimin observed for a long time.
"The Zong Luohu army is tired, we can attack."
Li Shimin turned over his horse, ignored the obstruction of his own soldiers, personally lifted the lance and jumped on the horse, and rushed to the front. He asked his own soldiers to hold high his handsome banner and rush to the front with him.
Led by the handsome banner, Li Shimin was very dazzling in gold armor.
Nearly 10,000 Taiwanese troops on the plateau descended the mountain like fierce tigers.
Li Shimin took the lead and led a thousand Xuanjia iron cavalry built by him to take the lead in rushing straight into the main formation of the Chinese army in Zong Luohu.
The Xuanjia Iron Cavalry was built by Li Shimin after realizing the sharpness of the heavy cavalry when he was under Luo Cheng, and the cavalry selected was the black lance dragon cavalry in the Xiaoguo Army.
They were dressed in black iron armor and held black lacquered iron horses, which were extremely sharp.
The cry shook the ground, and the iron hooves shook the sky.
Although Zong Luohu had 50,000 troops, he was also exhausted from the previous strong attack and fierce attack, and divided his troops to attack two troops and horses of the Tang army, but was attacked by Li Shimin on the main position of the Chinese army.
The charge of the heavy cavalry was too strong for the Western Qin army to stop it at all.
Half a day later.
Both armies were exhausted, but they were still fighting inseparably.
Everyone knows that this is the decisive battle.
At this time, whoever has reinforcements first will win it all.
Although Li Shimin's Xuanjia cavalry was powerful, it was still too few after all, and the Zong Luohu army was rushed, but his two wings defeated the Tang army and turned around to encircle Li Shimin.
In this way, the two armies fought inseparably.
Li Shimin looked at the battlefield worriedly, and did not dare to pray in his heart that it was his own reinforcements that arrived first.
At dusk.
The northern part of the shallow water plain.
War horses neighed and military flags fluttered.
A well-groomed cavalry was arrayed, making final preparations before the quiz.
A member of the Mingguang Armor General is making the final mobilization immediately.
Riding spears raised.
The elite of 3,000 cavalry completed the preparations and instigated the war horses.
Horses' hooves thundered.
Flags fly.
On the battlefield, everyone's eyes were looking over there, and they all wanted to see the pattern on the flag right away.