Lei Changying looked up and saw big colorful mushrooms floating in the air, suddenly remembered the legendary airship, and immediately sent someone to ask Li Jiancheng if he retreated, but he was still a step too late; The airship quickly floated to the position of the Tang army along the wind, and one after another thunder fell from the sky and exploded on the crossbow array, the bed crossbow position and the gate were almost blown up, and the crossbowmen were killed and injured countless times. After the airship blew up the crossbow array, it bombed the cavalry of the Tang army, which caused the war horses to run wildly, and the Tang soldiers and horses collided, completely messing up the formation.

The psychological pressure brought by the airship is far greater than its actual power, and in the face of such an almost impossible counterattack, the Tang soldiers can only think of fleeing. At this moment, the cavalry of the Hexi Army launched an attack, and the 15,000 cavalry rushed up like a storm and lightning, and cut into the position of the 30,000 Tang Army at the moment when the thunder explosion stopped. There was no decent resistance, and the cavalry of the right guard cheered and chased the fleeing Tang soldiers, and the horses, long knives, and steel spears passed everywhere, and there were blood flowers, wounds, and deaths.

Lei Changying was so frightened that he fled for his life in the chaos, but the banner around him betrayed him, Luo Shixin caught up, and a shot resulted in Lei Changying's life and cut down the banner. There was no suspense in the next battle, the 30,000 Tang army completely collapsed, and the cavalry of the Hexi Army fought all the way to the Tang army's Dazhai; Li Shuliang has been paying attention to the battle here, and immediately commanded the 10,000 Tang troops who besieged the city to turn around and kill, and Li Jiancheng personally led the guards and the Tang army guarding the village to attack, and fought with Luo Shixin and Suo Yanshou.

Yang Gongqing saw it on the city tower, and immediately went down to the city tower, gathered the five thousand cavalry of the right imperial guard, opened the city gate and went out of the city; The Tang army besieging the city was retreating in hesitation, and it was not formal at all, and was rushed by 5,000 cavalry, only to run towards Dazhai. The Hexi Army on the airship had no way to throw thunder at the melee army, so they could only block the gate of the Tang Army's fortress and attack the gathered troops in the camp as stated in the textbook.

For a time, the Tang Army's Dazhai became a Shura hell, but tens of thousands of soldiers fled back, trampled on people and horses, killed each other, and became a pot of porridge. The 80,000 Tang army was no more than 5,000 horses, and when the front was in chaos, it lost hundreds of horsemen, relying on the large number of infantry, and had no advantage at all in the face of 20,000 cavalry, and it became more and more difficult under the impact of its own defeated army; At this time, the horn of the Hexi army's attack was heard, Li Jing's army arrived, and Wei Lu led a 5,000-foot army to rush out of Nanyang City.

Li Shuliang immediately made a decision, commanded hundreds of guards around him to kill near Li Jiancheng, and worked together with Lei Yongji and Zhu Zhijin to break through the siege. Shuai Qi fled, the Tang army immediately lost the courage to fight, and surrendered on their knees, and the fleeing soldiers were cut to death by the cavalry of the Hexi Army like mowing grass on the side of the road. The Hexi army pursued and killed fifty miles, captured 30,000 Tang troops, captured 700 war horses, and countless heavy supplies; Li Jing ordered the army to repair for three days and attack Dengzhou.

Li Jiancheng gathered more than 10,000 defeated troops and retreated to Dengzhou, originally preparing to mobilize all forces to fight a big battle with the Hexi army in Dengzhou, Li Shuliang advised: "The thief army is strong, we can't defend this useless city, once blocked by the thief army, then we can only watch the other party fight all the way from Xinye to Xiangyang." The top priority is to hold Xiangyang, with General Qin in Shangyong, the other party does not dare to go too south. ”

Li Jiancheng accepted it and sent a letter to Qin Qiong, and Li Jiancheng collected military and horse materials and retreated to Xinye, leaving Pang Qingyun to lead 3,000 people to garrison Xinye, and the rest of the men and horses all moved to Xiangyang. The Hexi army regained the lost territory all the way, but without a battle, it recovered the Sui County, Shandu County and Deng County to which Dengzhou belonged, Li Jing understood that Xiangyang was difficult to take, so he simply used 30,000 soldiers to rebuild the city wall of Dengzhou, dredged the grain river in the southern suburbs of Yucheng, and used Dengzhou as a rear granary, waiting for the opportunity to march into Jingxiang.

Yang Chong was not particularly happy to receive the war report, the war in Nanyang was not as devastating as Hanzhong, in the final analysis, there is a difference between the descendant and the descendant, it can only depend on the plan of Kou Jiuhui, Zhang Deng and others. On the Bashu side, as Hanzhong, Bazhong, and Brazil were captured by the Hexi Army, Li Yuan, who returned to Chengdu, had to leave 10,000 sailors in Yuzhou in case of accidents, so the Tang Army could only recruit 50,000 troops in Chengdu, and Jiang Duo could not hold on to it in Brazil.

In addition, Yang Yu disappeared, he disappeared in Henan, and he did not reach Beiping in the end; Similarly, Song Zixian and Yuan Tiangang are missing. Yang Chong understood that it was because he was too smooth during this time, underestimating the opponent, and facing Song Zixian, it was the most convenient and cleanest thing to besiege him to death with an order.

It's just that I am entangled in the quiet of my heart, and I want to fight wits and courage, but now I look at it, I must have left a future trouble. No wonder from the perspective of management, good habits must be maintained, Xiaofu is the defect of the poor family, Yang Chong sorted out his emotions, and came to the hall with a smile to see Cui Minshou who reported back to Chang'an.

In fact, I have seen it in the political hall yesterday, when it was discussed whether to agree to Jieli Khan's request to increase the number of coins, the war in Shuzhong was tense, and the Turks took advantage of the fire to loot and asked for an increase in the purchase of Fengzhou's coins, 600,000 yuan per year for ten years, which is equivalent to an increase of half in the total, most people were opposed, but in the end, under the persuasion of Yang Chong, this resolution was passed. This year is the third year, but it is 80,000 kan more than the original number, and the household department secretly ordered the coinage division to step up the minting of copper coins.

However, there was an accident in Yangzhou, Yangzhou has no plan so far, but Yu Qintao, the county prince, was sent to a book by the left-behind Si Qu Tutong and asked to replace him with Cui Deben. Chang'an was highly nervous, and this was a bold temptation to adjust Yang Chong's personnel arrangements when Jiangnan needed Yangzhou to provide supplies. Yangzhou's attitude is that if you don't agree, I won't have anything, this is the Jiangzuo clan's means to deal with Yang Guang back then, and now Qu Tutong and others are using it for Yang Chong.

What overwhelmed everyone was that Yang Chong agreed without the slightest hesitation, and for this reason, some officials from Yangzhou and the Privy Council were adjusted, and Yu Qintao was transferred to be in charge of Caoyun and served as the chief supervisor of Caoyun. When Yang Chong issued the appointment, he sent a handwritten letter to Qu Tutong and Cui Deben, explaining that now is a critical time for the Great Sui and the Central Plains, the foreign threat still exists, and people are dying every day of the war.

Chang'an rejoiced, Jiang was really old and spicy, Qu Tutong, as a veteran of the Four Dynasties, made an extraordinary move, Yang Chong, like the dead Son of Heaven Yang Guang, still chose to retreat and compromise at the critical moment when his goal was about to be realized. Only the bigwigs in the political hall understand that Qu Tutong's political life is over, and what we will see behind is whether it can be good, if Yangzhou pulls the hind legs of the war in the south of the Yangtze River, then the old and new accounts will be settled together.

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