After sending Sun Simiao away, Yang Guang took the generals again, inspected the wounded barracks, said some words of encouragement, and after doing a few shows, he was about to leave, when he suddenly saw Wen Yidao coming quickly, handed over a piece of information, and said: "Shengshang, the wolf in Guanzhong came with news that Xue Ju defeated Li Shimin in a shallow water source, and then Xue Ju died of a violent illness, and his son Xue Rengao led his troops to retreat to Lanzhou and succeeded to the throne as emperor!" ”

"What!?" Yang Guang was shocked by this sudden news.

"Haha, the Tang army is defeated! Good news! ”

"The Tang army that occupied Guanzhong was actually defeated by Xue Ju's right cavalry, it's incredible!"

"After the Tang army defeated Xue Ju in Fufeng, it didn't take advantage of the victory to attack, but came to our eastern capital, causing this defeat, it's really self-inflicted!"

"This Xue Ju can actually regain morale after the big defeat, continue to attack, and have a big victory, what a rare general!"

"After the Qin army's victory, Xue Ju suddenly fell ill and died, is this something strange!?"

Hearing this news, all the generals under Yang Guang exploded and talked one after another.

Yang Guang settled down, he was familiar with the history books, he knew that this was the first battle of the shallow water source, and it did end in the defeat of Li Tang, but the history books recorded that there may be hidden secrets, so Yang Guangnai asked: "One knife, what is the specific situation!" ”

Wen Yidao arched his hand at everyone and introduced: "After Xue Ju was defeated by Fufeng, he sent people to the north of Wuyuan County, where to connect the third brother of the Turkic Shibi Khan, who set up a tooth tent, and the current Ashina Ashina of Mohe, and personally led his troops to the north, and his general Zong Luohu captured Pingliang County, marched into Jingzhou, and captured the Longzhou guard general Chang Da with a strategy, defeated and captured the hussar general Liu Gan who came to help, and then surrounded the department of Li Shuliang in Jingzhou. ”

In contrast, Li Yuan faction used the strategy of his son Li Jiancheng to send his Guanglu Qing Yuwen Xin to bribe Ashina with money and property, abolish Fengzhou, and cede the land of Yuzhong to the Turks. He broke off relations between the Turks and Xue Ju, returned Wuyuan County to Li Tang, and sent troops to help Li Yuan fight against Xue Ju. ”

"In order to relieve Jingzhou, Li Yuan sent his second son Li Shimin as the marshal, with his Nayan Liu Wenjing as the marching chief, and Yin Kaishan, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, as the marching Sima, and Liu Hongji, Chai Shao, Qiu Xinggong, Li Anyuan, Murong Luohu, Dou Rail, Lin Xingcang, and Tang Jian's troops galloped to aid Jingzhou, and the two sides met in Gaoqicheng in the south of Ningzhou, and confronted each other at a shallow water source, but soon, because of the rash attack of the Tang army, and the defeat was lost, more than half of the dead were killed, and most of the rest were captured, including Liu Hongji, Murong Zonghu and Li Anyuan, the three marching chiefs, were also captured! ”

Mai Mengcai rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "Haha, this time Li Tang's defeat is really a great joy for my Great Sui!" ”

Lai Hu'er said happily: "Yes, Li Tang's failure this time is really my great sui's luck!" This time, they lost more than 80,000 elites, and their vitality was injured, so they would definitely have to shrink back to defend against Xue Ju's attack, so they bought us time to sweep Li Mi, and we didn't have to worry about the Tang Army coming out to stir up! ”

Yang Guang muttered: "I still haven't come back to my senses until now, how did Li Shimin do it this time, how could he lose to Xue Ju?" It's incredible. ”

Wen Yidao said with a straight face: "In the past two days, various follow-up intelligence sources have come, and the situation of this battle has gradually become clear. At the beginning, Li Shimin led the troops of the eight commanders to attack, Liu Wenjing was the long history, Yin Kaishan was Sima, and led the army to the area of Gaoqi City west of Fufeng County, camped in the shallow water plain on the edge of the city, and confronted the 100,000 army of Xue Ju who came to attack, and this confrontation was more than three months. ”

Li Shimin's original intention was probably to exhaust Xue Ju's military rations, wait for his army's mind to change, or when he retreated, he would pursue it with all his might, this move was almost successful, Xue Ju's army came from afar, and food did become a big problem. But at this time, Li Shimin fell ill with malaria, and the command fell into the hands of Liu Wenjing and Yin Kaishan. ”

"Before Li Shimin fell ill, he instructed Liu and Yin several times to tell them not to fight, and to hold on for another ten days and half a month, and when he recovered, he could naturally lead everyone to defeat Xue Ju."

But Yin Kaishan felt that the fighter had arrived. Because Xue Ju couldn't succeed in the challenge for a long time, and couldn't cut off the Tang army's grain route, he was also very anxious, so he spread news everywhere that he was going to prepare to withdraw the army back to Lanzhou, and also made preparations to move the camp. ”

"This matter is known to the other eight governors, all the generals want to fight for merit, and no one is willing to let Yin Kaishan's army attack, so Liu Wenjing simply let the whole army go out of the camp to fight, which is in the hands of Xue Ju, his cavalry is very mobile, first pretended to escape, evacuated the battlefield, leaving only 40,000 infantry to fight in the shallow water plain array."

"The Tang army was still a little defensive at first, but at this time, it really thought that Xue Ju's infantry and cavalry were separated, and the cavalry threw down the infantry and fled, so they waved the army and attacked, Xue Ju's infantry could not resist and retreated into the camp, and the Tang army divided its troops and prepared to storm Xue Ju's camp, but at this time, more than 50,000 cavalry released by Xue Ju early suddenly appeared behind the Tang army and attacked with all his might!"

"In order to besiege Xue Ju's camp, the Tang army scattered the troops of the eight general managers, surrounded them in all directions, and could not form a joint force, so that the iron cavalry rushed to kill, and the whole line collapsed, and the generals Murong Luoyu and Li Anyuan were captured on the spot, and Liu Hongji's army was broken alone in order to cover the withdrawal of other armies, and finally the arrows were exhausted, and the enemy cavalry galloped back and forth, and the whole army was annihilated, and Liu Hongji was also seriously injured and captured!"

Yang Guang recalled the first battle of Shallow Water Plain, and said with a smile: "I know that this Western Qin overlord Xue Ju, although he has the courage of ten thousand people, and his son Xue Rengao is known as 'ten thousand enemies,' but he is a rough man, he can't think of such a clever plan, most of it is his chief think-tank Hao Ming's idea." However, the Tang army was defeated so badly, it should be the first time since Li Yuan raised his army, the strength of the Eighth General Manager was no less than 80,000, and more than 50,000 people were lost in this battle, and Li Yuan's mobile force was lost more than half! ”

Wen Yidao nodded: "Yes, Li Shimin retreated to Guanzhong with less than 30,000 remnants of the army, and Xue Ju captured more than 20,000 Tang Army officers and soldiers in this war, leaving only a few generals not killed, and the other soldiers were all tortured to death." Some were tied to the target of the arrow and shot to death, some were buried in the earth and the cone was pierced through the brain, and some were thrown into the cauldron and boiled alive. Moreover, Xue Ju also piled up the corpses of more than 50,000 soldiers into Jingguan to show off his martial arts! ”