There was a long silence.

Chai Shao sighed, but said slowly.

On summer nights, the night breeze was gentle, and the tent was not so stuffy, but even if the tent curtain was lifted at this time, Li Shimin still broke out in a cold sweat.

"It's all Luo Siye, this person is really a bold and reckless man, or an adventurous general."

After Chai Shao was captured in Dali City, he was always taken by Luo Siye in the army, so he watched how Luo Siye attacked the Hetao.

Taking advantage of the night, Luo Siye led his army to raid Li Deliang's Tiande army in the unfinished Zhongshou City. The Tiande army had 12,000 men, but it couldn't even stop Luo Siye.

Li Deliang was defeated and captured, and more than 1,000 Tiande troops were killed in battle, and the rest were either defeated or surrendered.

Then Luo Siye ignored the surrendered army from the east on the south bank of the river, and continued to attack Fengzhou City.

In the city of Fengzhou, Li Shuliang was only garrisoned by 2,000 soldiers, and dozens of miles northwest was the 12,000 troops of the Western Surrender City under construction. Luo Siye came in a surprise attack, and Li Shuliang learned in advance from the defeated soldiers who had fled back that Luo Siye was coming, and while closing Fengzhou City, he sent troops to the west to send troops to the surrendered army to help.

It's just that Li Shuliang didn't expect that when Luo Siye just arrived in the city, Shi Yun Dingxing, the governor of Fengzhou in the city, suddenly turned his face, this capricious guy took the south gate of Fengzhou with his henchmen and led the Qin army into the city. Li Shuliang became a turtle in the urn, and when the surrendered army from the west hurried, he only encountered the Qin army in ambush halfway, and suffered a big defeat.

Luo Siye defeated the Tang army in a row, took advantage of the trend, and then captured Lingzhou.

This dazzling operation can be said to be amazed even by Chai Shao, who has been following the army all the way, not to mention the Tang Army, which is now extremely empty.

In just one month, Luo Siye moved from the white road of Yinshan Mountain to fight for thousands of miles, first annihilated 5,000 Turkic troops in the city of Dali, and then pretended to be a Turkic army to ambush Chai Shao's 80,000 army, and then gave up Dali and rushed to the west, defeated Li Deliang in the surrendered city in the middle of the city, and then attacked Fengzhou to capture Li Shuliang and defeated the surrendered city in the west, and then attacked Lingzhou by the way.

"Yun Dingxing, this capricious guy, if it weren't for him, Fengzhou would not have been attacked, and Lingzhou would not have been lost. After taking Fengzhou, he shouldn't have kept this bastard, he should have been slashed, otherwise, there wouldn't have been this guy to do the internal response, and even break my Fengzhou and Lingzhou. ”

Chai Shao sighed.

Li Shimin was already speechless.

"So, the land of the Hetao is lost?"

"There are also Guo Zihe's Shengzhou and Dongshou City that have not been lost, adding up to about 20,000 soldiers and horses."

Li Shimin shook his head, "What's the use?" Now the problem is that Li Liang in Hexi has been attached to Qin, and Luo Siye has killed Lingzhou again, and Lingzhou has gone south, which is the Xiaoguan of Sisai, which is the northwest gateway of Chang'an. If Xiao Pass is lost, Luo Siye will be able to take Yuanzhou directly, attack Jingzhou, and then approach Chang'an City along the Jing River Valley Road! ”

It was simply the most vicious stab.

This is no longer a war in northern Xinjiang, this is a threat to the henchmen who have been killed under Chang'an City.

"Li Rail left Jincheng County and went east, so he could go to Huizhou, and then join Luo Siye. Alternatively, he could also send troops south and take Longyou directly. ”

No matter how Li Liang sends troops, the Li family will face a life-and-death situation.

"Although Li Liang is based on the land west of the river, his soldiers and horses are fine. Luo Siye has fought thousands of miles, and he is already tired of soldiers and horses, although he is based in Lingzhou, he may not have the strength to go south. What's more, Xiao Guan is not so easy to break through, this is one of the four stoppers in Guanzhong. Chai Shao comforted Li Shimin.

But Li Shimin just shook his head and sighed.

This is true by common sense, but is it time to extrapolate by common sense?

According to common sense, how could he Luo Siye fight for thousands of miles with a lone army and seize the land of the Hetao in a row? According to common sense, Chai Shao's 100,000-strong army could not be defeated, Li Shuliang's Fengzhou could not be lost, and Lingzhou could not be lost.

Now that Chai Shao's 100,000 Northern Expeditionary Army has been wiped out and the entire Hetao has been lost, the situation in Guanzhong is already very critical, first of all, the troops are seriously insufficient, and the soldiers and horses in the entire Guanzhong are estimated to be about 100,000.

Another one, the soldiers are not good and the generals are not fierce, and there is a lack of enough generals to take the lead.

"Why did Li Rail belong to Luo Cheng? Didn't he understand that after Luo Cheng captured Guanzhong, he would cross the river and tear down the bridge? Li Shimin was puzzled.

"Li Liang has no ability, seeing that the world is about to be decided, and Luo Cheng is the strongest, so he also thinks about going to the emperor to join him."

Li Shimin and Chai Shao sat there, sighing for a long time.

"How could you have made such a low-level mistake in the first place, and you were so defeated in Dali City." Li Shimin couldn't help but blame Chai Shao.

"I didn't expect it, who would have thought that Luo Siye would actually go around Jieli's back and occupy Dali City." Chai Shao was helpless.

"Yes, who would have expected that, I didn't expect that I would lose so badly in Huoyi." Li Shimin smiled bitterly.

Long.

Li Shimin asked, "What about Shuliang and Deliang?" ”

"In another camp."

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Late June.

The main force of the Qin army is still besieging Yanmen City.

On the ninth day of the first month, more than half of the 1,000 defenders of Niupiguan in Yunzhong County had been lost, and everyone was wounded, but no one surrendered. The Turkic army sent by Jieli launched a series of fierce attacks, and the city pass was finally breached.

The defenders in the city fought to the death, and when the city pass was broken, they fought in the streets. When the weapon is broken, it is smashed with a fist.

They fought to the last man, until the whole army was gone.

After the battle, the Turkic generals were shocked to find that it took them more than a month to finally take the Cowhide Pass, but in order to seize this pass guarded by 1,000 people, they lost more than 3,000 people and spent countless arrows.

The angry Turkic generals ordered the Cowhide Pass to be burned, and at the same time collected the corpses of all the defenders, and built a Jingguan under the gate with soil and corpses.

On June 13, the town of Heng'an was lost.

The 2,000 defenders of the town were wiped out.

On the 15th, the county town of Yunzhong was also in danger, with 5,000 defenders in the city, but less than 2,000 could stand at this time, and the soldiers and civilians in the city also suffered thousands of casualties.

In order to defend this city, the army and the people are united and swear to defend it.

Sixteenth.

The Turkic army attacked again, and the eastern and western cities were broken through many times, but in the end they were driven down by Liu Hongji and Wei Chiliang.

When the light was about to end, an army appeared in the northeast of Yunzhong County.

Under the setting sun, the flag was gilded with a layer of golden light.

In the vast light, the big Qin characters on the red banner were so conspicuous.

The 8,000 Xi Qi light cavalry forwards led by Deng Wei finally arrived in Yunzhong County after passing through the 500-mile Great Wall mountain road.

The formation of eight thousand light horsemen slowly approached, and the banner of the Qin character fluttered high.

The Turks sounded the clarion call to retreat and slowly retreated.

A Turkic cavalry greeted reinforcements, and eventually stopped them at the foot of Mount Suzhen, twenty miles northeast of Yunzhong City.

Liu Hongji stood on the ruined city wall in the clouds, looked at the fluttering red flag, and patted Wei Chiliang's shoulder, "Old man, look, the reinforcements have arrived, the reinforcements have arrived." ”

Wei Chiliang lay on the city wall, trying to stand up, but he was weak, he was covered with scars, the old injuries were not healed, and new injuries were added.

"Really, reinforcements have arrived?"

"Can you see who brought the reinforcements?"

"Coming from the side of Suzhen Mountain, it seems that the banner is Xi Qi's vassal army, and it should be our purple-faced Heavenly King Zhao Gui."

Yu Chiliang couldn't help laughing, "Damn, I thought Lao Tzu was going to confess here this time, I didn't expect our life to be hard, and Lord Yama still refused to accept it, hahaha!" ”