In Yanchuan County, Sun Hua fell into a bitter battle with 10,000 defenders, Sang Xianhe surrendered to Feng Yi, Liu Wenjing's army was as many as 70,000, and Yang Xu, the defender of Diaoyin County, surrendered in Yichuan County, and 60,000 Tang troops killed silently under Yanchuan City. Fortunately, Sun Hua's 10,000 troops were all recruited by him in Guanzhong, and Longquan Commercial Bank had a branch in Yanchuan County, so there was no shortage of fighting spirit and materials, so Sun Hua decided to stick to it.

The Tang army failed to open the city gate, and the two sides fought hard all night, and at dawn, the Tang army continued to attack the city desperately; However, a distance of a few hundred miles, reinforcements from the Hexi Army would arrive at any time, and the cavalry scouts would be released two hundred miles away. But when the remnant sun was like blood, the city of Yanchuan was full of corpses, the city was not broken, and the reinforcements of the Hexi Army did not come; Liu Wenjing, Yin Kaishan, Sang Xianhe looked at each other, and the Hexi Army's iron cavalry crisscrossed the northwest, how could they react so slowly this time.

Fortunately, at dusk, news finally came that the cavalry from Shangxian appeared two hundred miles to the north, and the dust covered the sky behind, and there were about twenty or thirty thousand reinforcements; After dark, it was reported that the Hexi army was encamped one hundred and fifty miles. Yin Kaishan said calmly: "They expected that we would not be able to capture Yanchuan, so they were not in a hurry, and wanted to use the offensive and defensive battles to consume our troops. I led 5,000 cavalry to attack the camp, and Lord Liu guarded the camp and let the soldiers rest for the night. ”

The Tang army set out from Chang'an, and traveled to Xiaosu at night, because they were afraid that the news of Sang Xianhe and Yang Xu's surrender would be leaked, the Tang army did not rest at all along the way, and marched all the way to the city of Yanchuan. Liu Wenjing bowed his head and said: "This plan is very good, General Yin went to attack the camp to harass the enemy, General Sang, release the exploration horses along the way, and can't let the Hexi army sneak attack us." ”

Yin Kaishan and Sang Xianhe immediately ordered the troops to be collected and retreated thirty miles back to camp; Late at night, Yin Kaishan led 5,000 cavalry to leave the camp, and the Tang army's secret post was placed on the edge of the Yellow River in the east, and the north and west sides were a distance of 100 miles. Late at night, there was silence in the Tang barracks, except for the occasional cries of cattle, which was the sound of patrolling and beating guards; The soldiers standing guard at the gate dozed off from time to time, and occasionally looked up in the direction of Yanchuan City, but there was no movement at all.

Jiang Duo listened to Li Jing's suggestion, and 7,000 people traveled hundreds of miles, and before the scouts of the Tang army could be launched, they ran behind the Tang army, wrapped the horse's hooves in cloth in the dark night, took off the horse bells, and quietly touched up from the south and hid behind the Tang army's big village. Jiang Duo gave an order, thousands of rockets were fired into the Tang Army's Dazhai, and Yuwen Chengdu and Luo Shixin commanded their men to enter Dazhai.

A scream, a wail; Liu Wenjing jumped up from the bed, and under the escort of his own soldiers, he rushed out of the tent with his sword, and the barracks was already full of fire. Liu Wenqi ran towards him and shouted in panic: "Brother, the Hexi army is coming, I don't know how many people there are, go quickly." ”

Liu Wenjing shouted angrily: "Organize the army to counterattack." ”

Li Anyuan rode over and said, "Lord Liu, the other party is all cavalry, and the 20,000 people who surrendered are all in chaos, so you can't do anything, retreat first." Come on, protect the adults on the horse, and break through with me. ”

More than a dozen pro-soldiers immediately hugged Liu Wenjing and got on the war horse, followed behind Li Anyuan, Liu Wenqi gathered dozens of soldiers and rushed out all the way outside. When there was a lack of war horses in the Tang army, and the ranks were chaotic, the generals on horses were easily locked up by the Hexi army, and almost at the same time, more than two hundred horsemen were killed from three directions; Li Anyuan shouted at the nearby Tang soldiers to come over to help, but the effect was not great in the chaos, and Li Anyuan could only rely on the personal soldiers around him to fight.

Liu Wenqi reacted quickly, dragged Liu Wenjing off the horse, asked his own soldiers to escort Liu Wenjing to escape in the infantry, jumped on the war horse himself, and entangled the Hexi soldiers who killed him with Li Anyuan. In the fierce battle, Luo Shixin was killed, and the two fought hard for more than 20 times, and they were both knocked off their horses and captured; On the other side, Murong Luohu met Yuwen Chengdu, barely resisted more than a dozen rounds, and was stoned to death by Yuwen Chengdu.

Killed until the sky was slightly white, Sang Xianhe couldn't escape, and led the crowd to surrender, Jiang Duo asked people to notify Sun Hua to attack; Sun Hua actually found the cavalry going north of Yin Kaishan on the city tower, but he didn't dare to take it lightly, and the Tang army camp was on fire, and he had already gathered his troops, and immediately led the four thousand cavalry of his headquarters to rush out of the west gate when he heard the order, preparing to intercept the Tang cavalry.

Yin Kaishan's army ran for nearly two hundred miles, and after the failure of the attack on the Hexi army from the flank, Yin Kaishan knew that it was not good, and waited for the scout to report quickly, and the fire broke out in the direction of the camp, and Yin Kaishan ordered the withdrawal of the army; How could Tang Bi lead two thousand horsemen to rush out of the camp and die behind them. Yin Kaishan retreated, and Tang Bi chased; Yin Kaishan turned back, and Tang Bi retreated; After two times, Yin Kaishan could only leave a thousand cavalry behind and lead the army back to help.

Halfway through, Yin Kaishan suddenly thought of Sun Hua in Yanchuan City, according to Yang Xu's teaching, Sun Hua had at least 5,000 cavalry, Yin Kaishan sent a general to lead 200 cavalry first, and slowly returned to the division by himself, taking the opportunity to trim it; As soon as he received the news that there were 4,000 cavalry intercepting in front and 200 cavalry being annihilated, Yin Kaishan immediately made a decision and led the crowd to flee westward. Sun Hua led the army to chase two hundred miles, and returned with six hundred heads; The 1,000 horsemen after the Tang army was broken were all killed by Tang Bi.

Jiang seized the results of the battle, killed 20,000 Tang troops, captured 17,000 people, and countless ordnance; Then he joined up with Ling Jing, and took advantage of Liu Wenjing's inability to fight again, captured Fenchuan County, and recovered the entire territory of Diaoyin. After Liu Wenjing and Yin Kaishan rendezvous, they packed up the remnants and retreated into Fengyi County, plus the 10,000 troops left behind, barely gathered 30,000 people to hold on.

In fact, there is no need for Liu Wenjing's notice, Yan'an County and Wen Dayou have already received the battle report from Diaoyin County, originally only Yao Junsu resolutely refused to take refuge in Chang'an, but now it has become Yuan Wuji, Zhuge Jiahui, and Li Xianyu all clearly disagreed; Wen Dayou knew that Yang Gongren had already decided to return to Chang'an, and the key was still on Qu Tutong's body, but Qu Tutong, the old guy, was very ghostly, and he killed the house slave sent by Chang'an's son to persuade him to surrender, but he refused to express his position.

Looking at the high-ranking officials sitting in two rows, Wen Dayou was not in a hurry, some things were repeated over and over again, in fact, it was the last incense stick that could be seen, Yuan Wuji and Li Xiyu's family had people come forward to speak for Li Yuan, even if Yang Yu was a fig leaf, it was still of some use at the moment. Wen Dayou asked with a smile on his face: "General Qu Tu, are you going to return to Chang'an to take up your post, or are you going to rebel against Yang Chong?" ”

Qu Tutong said briskly: "I want to go to Jiangdu, or Luoyang." ”

Wen Dayou said lightly: "General, you and I both understand that you can't go, even if King Tang doesn't care, Yang Chong won't agree to let you go." ”

(End of chapter)