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Li Xiaochang died, Mengzhou also fell into the hands of the Han State, Chang'an was in an uproar, they quickly sent envoys to ask Li Chengzong, why did they want to start the war again, didn't the two sides sign an armistice agreement? Don't you Han Guo talk about honesty and benevolence at all? As a result, Li Chengzong's agreement was used to tear it up, breaking Chang'an's illusions.

In the end, Chang'an came up with a so-called method to encircle Wei and save Zhao, that is, the Tang army sent troops to attack Nanyang, an important town in the south of the Han State, in order to force Li Chengzong to be distracted, so as to mobilize the main force of the Han army to go south and relieve the siege of Youzhou.

According to the meaning of the Chang'an court, Li Xiaogong and Li Jing, the kings of Zhaojun, sent 100,000 troops in May of the fourth year of Wude, claiming to be 300,000, and the momentum was fierce and rushed to Nanyang, and the Tang army was connected for more than 60 miles. On the contrary, the Han army in Nanyang City was less than 5,000 people. Despite the huge disparity in the comparative strength of the two sides, Zhang Wensong, the prefect of Nanyang, and Yang Rui, the commander of the garrison, were still not afraid of danger and extensively mobilized the people of the city to participate in the war.

The Tang army besieged the city several times, first bombarding the city wall with a dense rain of arrows and stones fired by stone throwers, and then advancing with dozens of "ladders" in an attempt to forcibly climb the city wall. The defenders took advantage of more than a dozen "flying towers" in the city, condescendingly, and constantly shot the enemies in the ladder with guns and crossbows, and finally saved the day.

Since the Tang army was frustrated in attacking the city with a cloud ladder, it switched to the "heavenly ladder", which is higher than the city wall, up to two zhang wide, and the surface is all paved with wooden planks to defend bows and arrows, and there are doors in front and back, and a large number of soldiers hide in the middle passage waiting for the opportunity to attack the city.

The Han defenders, under the command of Yang Rui, improvised to the situation, saw the move, lit the greased reed bundles, and threw them towards the ladder approaching the city wall. The raging fire burned dozens of ladders in an instant, and the Tang soldiers abandoned the ladders one after another, and those who ran slowly were burned alive in the smoke and fire.

In summer, the weather is very hot, and the soldiers of the Han army at the head of the city use a cauldron to boil tea to relieve the heat, and on the other hand, they pour hot water on the enemy under the city. And the Tang soldiers who were besieging the city had a dry mouth and were helpless. At night, there were strong men in the city who sneaked out of the camp outside the city, and the Tang army was noisy all night and could not rest.

After all, the Tang army was a feudal army, and during the siege of the city, it was very cool to kill and plunder in the suburbs of Nanyang, and within forty or fifty miles of the surrounding area, there were corpses and bones everywhere, and they were full of devastation. Li Xiaogong saw that Nanyang had been repeatedly attacked and had no choice but to follow Li Jing's advice and retreat to Hanyuan on the side of the Han River.

The Tang army met under the city of Nanyang, and the future god of the army, Li Jing, fully understood the strength of the Han army in this battle, just when he was resting for a while, ready to write a summary of the war, news came from the front, the main force of the Han army encountered them.

The commander of the Han army was Pei Renji, Li Chengzong's uncle, who was not familiar with the performance of the Han army's firearms, but he dared to personally set up artillery against the wind and bombard the Tang army, but he was burned by the smoke and flames blown back by the fierce wind, and his beard was burned, and his arm was burned.

The Tang army counterattacked with the wind, and the Han army lost hundreds of men, and at one point retreated to the vicinity of Huangjiadu, followed by several counterattacks. Seeing that he could not eat his opponent in one bite, Li Xiaogong also led his army back to Hanyuan, where he started, and he arranged his boat division in a square formation, while the infantry went ashore and set up camp.

At this time, the north wind turned to the south wind, and the Tang army suddenly changed from a favorable situation with a favorable wind to an unfavorable situation with a headwind. Pei Renji immediately made a decision to prepare to set fire to the wind, and it took him only one night to quickly prepare the fire attack equipment, and secretly sent forty ships full of flammable materials to sneak from the downstream, ambush behind the Tang army, and agreed to launch a general attack at dawn to flank the enemy in front and rear.

The day finally dawned, Pei Renji commanded the army to burn the Tang army's ships made of bamboo, thatch, and wooden planks with fire, the process was very smooth, the sky was full of fires flickering, thousands of warships were wiped out, people who died in the flames and waves abounded, countless clothes, armor, equipment, and property accumulated together with floating corpses, as long as more than 10 miles, as if the river suddenly produced a series of Zhouzhu emerging from the water.

The Tang army's sailors were destroyed, and the infantry camps on the shore were also broken up under Pei Renji's attack, and Li Jing and Li Xiaogong could no longer care about these elite Tang soldiers, and they led their cronies in embarrassment and fled from the battlefield.

Chang'an's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain did not succeed, and Luo Yi of Youzhou City had a hard time, during this period of time, the Han army completed the encirclement of Youzhou, and Chen Ling specially mobilized hundreds of heavy artillery in order to take Youzhou, aiming at Youzhou.........

Wooden gates are usually the weakest point of a city, and can easily be smashed by cannonballs, and the Han army is a modern army dominated by hot weapons, and there is a record of destroying the doors of enemy walled fortresses with artillery many times and driving straight in. This time was no exception, and the soldiers decided to use artillery to blast open the gates of Youzhou.

The power of artillery is not what the soil buns of Youzhou can imagine, and soon the city of Youzhou was ravaged by the Han artillery, and became riddled with holes, among which the south gate of Youzhou Guangrun Gate was the first to be blown up by the Han artillery, and the Han soldiers broke into it from then on, and entered the city without encountering any resistance, and some soldiers climbed the wall.

The defenders of Youzhou had already fled and hid in the rumbling cannons, and all of them disappeared. Luo Yi's hometown, the palace is an apocalyptic scene, the dignitaries know that they can't be spared, they are looking for death, they either hang themselves in the room, or set themselves on fire. The fat and ill-gotten wealth collected for many years were also lost in the turmoil.

There were a large number of rabble in Luo Yi's army, and as soon as these people saw that they were cornered, they began to kill innocents indiscriminately with impunity. They broke into people's houses and looted them, killing many people between their beds and destroying some of them. It is said that the number of unjust souls under the knife reached tens of thousands.

In the face of this tragic situation, Chen Ling will not sit idly by, he has repeatedly ordered these routs, bandits, to be heavy-handed, kill without forgiveness, the Han army execution is strong enough, they mercilessly killed these routs, this move finally really ended this undisciplined, unorganized massacre.

Luo Yi had no choice but to abandon his wife and children, and led hundreds of cavalry to flee with the intention of going to the Turks, but what he didn't expect was that the followers gradually fled, and they couldn't stand it, they killed Luo Yi and sent his head to Li Chengzong, and a generation of heroes came to an end.

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