Generous, competing for the world is like a game, Duan Zhixuan applauded: "What General Li said is extremely true, Chang'an is just a city with symbolic significance, how can it decide the fate of my Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Yuan smiled and said: "Yang Chong has Zhuge Quan and Li Jing, I have Li Mi and Wang Bodang, God is not thin on me Li Yuan, come here, specially named Li Mi as Guangluqing, Wang Bodang as General Zuo Wuwei; In addition, I want to report to Luoyang, and I am willing to cancel the emperor's title and dedicate Chang'an to Yang Tong. ”

Li Jiancheng personally led an army of 30,000 to reinforce Feng Yi, the vanguard Li Mi and Luo Shixin fought more than 100 battles, Suo Yanshou was defeated by Wang Bodang, and Li Jing could only temporarily retreat to Chaoyi County. Yang Chongde repaid, but he could only lament that the inertia of the wheel of history was too strong, and he could not change the fate of these two people; Chang'an came to report again, and more than 10,000 troops led by Yan Fu and Liu Xie arrived in Chang'an, and Li Yuan greeted them with great fanfare.

Wang Ji shook his head and said: "It seems that Li Yuan's qi is not exhausted, and if the Guogong continues to fight, it will be a battle of stalemate." It is better to divide the troops into Changping County and Shangdang County, and return to the division to besiege Taiyuan. ”

Yang Chong knew that Li Mi's surrender to Tang was just the beginning, if he didn't stop it, a large number of generals such as Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin would come to Chang'an one after another, and the way to stop it was to show his strength. Yang Chong looked at the map hanging on the wall and said: "Li Jing is not defeated, but his troops are insufficient, so he asked Fang Yanzao to recruit 10,000 troops to go for reinforcements; Now we can only wait for the news of Yongxian and Luoyang, and then strike; Liang De has returned to Shizhou, Jiang Duo, how is your guard training? ”

Although Jiang Duo was the commander-in-chief of this southward trip, at present, the real subordinates under him are more than 10,000 people such as Yuan Zigan, Wang Junkuo, Hu Lu Tianzuo, Hu Lu Tianyou, and Liu Harrier, and more than 7,000 soldiers captured by the Tang Army were supplemented and a guard was rebuilt. What really swept through Hedong were the 10,000 iron cavalry of Song Jingang, Liu Yun, and Meng Shu, as well as the 15,000 infantry troops of Wuduaner, Jing Pantuo, and Yang Yanshi.

Fortunately, Cheng Yuan served as the long history of this guard, and Jiang Duo didn't have to worry about materials, military horses and other things, Jiang Duo said with a smile: "Wang Junkuo, Hu Lu Tianzuo, Hu Lu Tianyou, and Liu Harrier are all fierce generals, Cheng Yuan and Yuan Zigan are familiar with military affairs, so there should be no problem." Are you ready to do something to Li Zitong? ”

Yang Chong nodded and said, "As soon as Yang Heng's fifteen hundred Thunderbolt battalion soldiers arrive, you will be ready to fight." Ying Yi guarded the Bird Mouse Valley, Song Jingang and Meng Jian sat in Jinzhou, and Wuduan was in Jiangjun, so it should not be a big problem; Lu Chongmao, Jing Pantuo, Yang Yanshi, and Liu Yun will go with you. ”

Lu Chongmao is like sitting on a needle carpet these days, Yang Chongcai is the Duke of Yueguo, and he actually promised himself the Duke of Wei, and the Pei family took refuge in Yang Chong without saying a word, and Lu Chongmao was always worried about when Yang Chong would teach him a lesson; But Lu Chongmao understood that betraying Yang Chong and defecting to Li Yuan was even more sad. Hearing that Yang Chong let him lead 5,000 people from his headquarters to participate in the attack on Huayin, the stone in Lu Chongmao's heart fell to the ground slightly, even if it was used by Yang Chong, at least it showed that he was still valuable.

Before going out of the battle, Yang Chong specially talked with Lu Chongmao once, and said it thoroughly, as long as Lu Chongmao sincerely follows him, this Wei Guogong can continue to do it, so that the world is stable, and the Lu family will be hereditary when the time comes. Lu Chongmao excitedly sent Yang Chong to kowtow, and gave himself the reputation that Yujuluo and Jiang Duo did not have, even if it was a false name, it was worth it.

After the Yellow River flows through Hekou Town, it is blocked by the Luliang Mountain in the north-south direction, turns to the south, rushes between the canyons, the river water pours down from the Hukou Waterfall, continues to flow southward out of Longmen, is blocked by Huashan Mountain near Tongguan, and flows to the east. Fenglingdu is sixty miles southwest of Ruicheng County, at the corner of the Yellow River turning eastward, and has been the largest ferry port on the Yellow River since ancient times. For thousands of years, as an important Jin, Yunshan smoke tree, I don't know how many people have traveled to and from Guanzhong Qin and Jin through here.

In the early morning, the belly of the fish was white, the water of the Yellow River was still roaring, all kinds of boats suddenly appeared on the Yellow River, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Hexi Army appeared on the east bank of the Yellow River, the war horses neighed, the flags were unfurled, and the river crossing began in the shouting. After the Tang army found out, the entire river beach sounded an alarm, the beacon tower was lit with a raging fire, and the huge smoke went straight into the sky, which was clearly visible dozens of miles away.

It's just that the way the Hexi army erected the pontoon bridge is too surprising, not only the pontoon bridge is erected quickly, but also two hundred boats are under the protection of the three pontoon bridges, relying on the help of hooks and iron cables on the bridge, floating back and forth on the Yellow River. The bed crossbow continued to shoot furiously, causing the Tang troops on the shore to fall on the river beach in pieces, and the wooden village was reduced to ashes under the spray of the Greek fire of the Hexi army; Although the rockets and Greek fire of the Don army were also counterattacking, the ships were not at all flexible on the long front.

Once the wooden boat in front is destroyed, the boat behind comes up to fill the position and continues to shoot arrows; Obviously, the Hexi Army is fighting for its life, that is, it is bullying the turbulent water of the Yellow River, the big ships cannot walk, and the wooden sailboats or manpower rowing boats can walk freely, and they are not prepared for what to do after the Tang Army's sailors come to help.

Li Zhongwen wanted to cry without tears, and since ancient times, he had attacked half-crossing, but he did not expect that when the Hexi army did not care about the loss of bed crossbows and Greek fire, the battle would be like this, and the casualties of the Tang army would be more than 3,000 people. The three bridges were opened by heavy infantry, and after the bridge edge landed accurately, the Hexi Army killed a thousand hundred sword soldiers on the shore, whether the Tang army was cavalry or infantry counterattack, all the hundred knife men fought to the death.

More and more soldiers of the Hexi Army crossed the Yellow River and formed a position on the river beach; As hundreds of heavenly thunderbolts were thrown into the crowd of the Tang army, the cavalry of the Tang army was the first to be defeated, and the infantry was cut down by the Baidao soldiers in rows. In the afternoon, the Hexi Army had sent 500 war horses from wooden boats and bridges, and immediately launched a fierce attack on the infantry positions of the Tang army, and then melee with the Tang cavalry who had gone and returned.

Jing Pantuo and Yang Yanshi watched the five hundred cavalry fight to the death expressionlessly, and ordered the infantry to take the opportunity to consolidate their positions and carry the bed crossbows on the wooden boat to the shore for positioning; Let the Tang army wipe out five hundred cavalry, and when they pounced again, the crow arrows of twenty bed crossbows flashed in the air, and the cavalry of the Tang army fell in the rain of arrows one after another, and the last hundred or so horsemen retreated.

Li Zhongwen's heart was like a knife, and the two thousand war horses were rationed after withdrawing to Huayin, but they were lost on the beachhead; Three or four hundred more horses of the Hexi Army crossed the bridge, and it was no longer possible to block the Hexi Army with the strength of the troops in hand. In the fierce battle until dusk, more than half of Li Zhongwen's 15,000 soldiers were killed, and the casualties of the Hexi Army were also more than 4,000; The eight hundred cavalry of the Hexi Army staged a hysterical reunion that crushed the last courage of the Tang army.

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