Li Jing received the news and ordered Suo Yanshou to lead the cavalry to pursue along the riverbank, Luo Shixin and Dong Jun led the elite soldiers to approach the road and plagiarize, Li Jing repeatedly warned Dong Jun that Dong Jun's task was not to annihilate the other party, but to occupy the county seat along the way step by step. Dong Jun disagreed, thinking that when the Tang army was defeated and retreated, it was a good opportunity for him to break them one by one, Li Jing's arrangement was just to find an opportunity for his descendants to make contributions, Dong Jun decided to do a better job, to let Li Jing see his ability, and as a result, he crashed into Li Jiancheng's ambush circle.

After Dong Jun chased the grain cart into the ambush circle, Li Jiancheng and the marching Sima Zhu Zhijin surrounded the two ends and surrounded the 5,000 Hexi army in the hilly area of Feiyundu. Li Jiancheng was not prepared to persuade Dong Jun to surrender at all, and the pain of losing Jing Xiang made him determined to teach his opponent a lesson, and Dong Jun was killed by Lei Yongji with an arrow, which was the beginning of the entire ambush battle.

To the surprise of Wang Qi and others, the Hexi army did not collapse because of the death of the main general, the officers below directly lit the grain cart, commanded the army to break through the smoke and took advantage of the smoke, and the stragglers were not afraid of Li Tang's large number of people and the point shooting of the bow and crossbow position, and galloped in different directions at the fastest speed, the armor was as shiny as the weapon in the sun, even if there were lagging soldiers, the others still did not stop and continued to advance.

This is the experience of veterans of a hundred battles, which verifies the correctness of the line of the elite soldiers of the Hexi Army; Wang Qi could only order the release of arrows and shoot Dong Jun's 5,000 pursuers. What made the Tang army helpless was that once it was found blocked, the Hexi Army still continued to fight back under the command of some generals, and even if the fierce battle was fiercely fought to the end, there was no imaginary panic. The Hexi Army was well-equipped and well-trained, which caused great attrition to the Tang army, and it had to attack with all its troops to annihilate the opponent.

After an hour of fighting to end the battle, Li Jiancheng ordered the army to gather and move westward, and as soon as he walked thirty miles, he was attacked by a cavalry that suddenly appeared. The other side takes advantage of the characteristics of the open terrain and far away from the riverbank; Thousands of iron horsemen shouted and divided into more than a dozen circuits to intersperse the ranks of the Tang army, using the speed and mobility of the cavalry to tear open one opening after another of the Tang army, like a hungry wolf rushing into a flock of sheep.

In the fluttering of the Beiwei camp and the Luozi banner, the Hexi army quickly defeated the rear army of the Tang army, and Li Shuliang led the army to counterattack, but was blown back by the thunder, with countless casualties. It turned out that Luo Shixin crossed the river from the mouth of the old river and chased all the way here, considering the possibility of an ambush, 6,000 cavalry detoured to the front to set up an ambush; The Beiwei battalion once swept through Henan and Hebei, and it was all cavalry, and Luo Shixin was not worried that he would not be able to escape when the situation was wrong.

Li Jiancheng reported that Suo Yanshou was on the way to chase him, only forty miles away, and immediately learned and used it, and let the Tang army ignite all the grain wagons After the break, the army retreated one by one; Rao is like this, the family members and baggage who retreated one after another in front still have no time to withdraw. Luo Shixin killed 4,000 Tang troops, and with the assistance of Suo Yanshou, pursued for nearly 100 miles, captured countless baggage materials, and captured 11,000 people, including 7,600 people and family members, and 3,400 wounded.

The military discipline of the Hexi Army was extremely strict, even Suo Yanshou and Luo Shixin did not dare to kill the prisoners, but they dared not treat the wounded, and in the end, the number of wounded soldiers who died due to bloodshed, curare, and infection reached 3,000. Li Jing learned that there was no good way, Dong Jun's death was a great failure, and it was understandable for the soldiers to be angry, and there was still a naval army to be established, so they didn't care about pursuing the two of them.

As soon as Li Jiancheng arrived in Yichang, he learned the news of Shuzhong, and Li Yuan retreated to Chengdu and defended Mianzhu in the endless help of his wingmen. After Zhuge Quan and Jiang Duo joined forces, it was also difficult to advance. The opponent guarded the dangerous place, but the defense was still more than enough, Li Jiancheng and Pei Lin joined forces to defend Yuzhou and Luzhou. Li Xiaogong and Zhou Faming still had more than 100,000 troops, and the Tang army still had a wide territory south of the Yangtze River.

Li Xiaogong's 30,000 Tang army sailors traced the river, joined forces with Zhou Faming and Zhang Shan'an, known as 100,000, arranged the Tang army's defense line along the Yangtze River, and recruited troops and grain and grass materials from Changsha and other counties. Yang Chong continued to send Zheng Yuanshou to Chengdu to meet Li Yuan to negotiate peace at this time, Zheng Yuanshou was directly detained by Li Jiancheng, this kind of peace negotiation is full of fraud, Yang Chong has just occupied Jingxiang and Bazhong, Brazil, it takes time to digest, and the current peace negotiation is to wait for Yang Chong to ease down and continue to attack.

But Li Jiancheng will not kill Zheng Yuanshou, but take Zheng Yuanshou and directly wave his army from the northeast of Ba to attack Brazil County. Zhuge Quanzhi ordered Shan Xiongxin and Wei Yunqi to pacify Hanzhong, he and Xie Yingdeng defended Fucheng and Bazhong, and Jiang seized Brazil.

Li Jiancheng knew that his baggage was insufficient, so he sent someone to contact Chengdu, hoping to join forces with Li Yuan and obtain grain, grass and weapons from Chengdu. In order to appease the bureaucrats, Jiang Duo trained the newly recruited wingmen, although there were 50,000 people, they also needed to rest for a while, and the war in Brazil was delayed. Wang Jue discussed with Wei Ting worriedly, "Every general of the Hexi Army is so cautious, even if the battle situation is superior, it is still steady and steady, and it will be difficult for us to do it for a long time." ”

Wei Ting because Wei Yunqi persuaded Guo Xingfang to surrender to Sui, and now he is very much regarded differently by his colleagues, if it weren't for Wei Guiren who has been in Li Jiancheng's army and followed him to Shuzhong, Wei's situation may be even worse. Wei Ting smiled bitterly and said, "Jiang Duo is just a general, and the one who is difficult to deal with is Zhuge Quan, almost another Yang Chong, but Zhuge Quan is good at fighting, and Yang Chong is better at overall planning." Every attack of the Hexi army is to calculate the right time and place to start, so that their losses are minimized, the war in Shuzhong is on the salt, Jiang Duo does not fight is to hold the salt area, this is his weakness, but it may also be a trap designed by Zhuge Quan. ”

"yes, we can't afford to gamble." The Tang army lost Jingxiang, and the scholars in Shu didn't say anything on the surface, but the various slackness in their bones could be slowly seen, and Wang Qi said with a heavy heart, "Even if you win one or two battles now, you can't make people regain their advantages psychologically." If we lose, I'm afraid we will have to withdraw from Bashu. ”

Wei Ting muttered, "Actually, we should consider the situation in Jiaozhou now, open a road from Shuzhong to the past, and when necessary, you can retreat to Jiaozhou, even if Feng Ang is cunning, he is definitely not the emperor's opponent." ”

Wang Jue said in a low voice, "Now the negotiation may not be an opportunity to rearrange, but our ability to recover is far inferior to that of Chang'an, and this move is not the best practice." ”

The two understood that this was another similar test, and Yang Chong threw an olive branch at the most appropriate time every time, but if he chose not to be careful, he would fall into a bigger whirlpool. Some people say that Yang Chong is psychopathic and likes to play a game of cat and mouse, but in fact, in the eyes of wise men such as Wang Jue, this is a means to solve the cow, and the huge body of a cow will collapse under a thin cattle slaughtering knife.

Li Tang's cow is now dying, it depends on whether Bashu can get rid of the opponent's blade with this step, and the focus now is not on Jiang Duo in Brazil County, nor on Zhuge Quan in Fucheng, but completely on Yang Chong, the king of Yue who came and went to Luoyang, Chang'an. Qin Qiong learned that Jingxiang was lost, he completely lost contact with Li Tang, and he couldn't stand Wang Ji and constantly sent people to challenge, and when he chased Yang Gongqing, he was ambushed, and the army was defeated and surrendered, Shangyong City was recovered by the Hexi army, and there was no Tang army territory in the hinterland.

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