The situation in Guanxian County is very tense, but Li Xuanba has always maintained his calmness, no matter how nervous he is in his heart, he can't let others see it, because in a sense, he is the morale of the whole army.

The autumn is high and cool, the sky is cloudless, and the wolf smoke in Guanxian County is billowing up, transmitting a dangerous atmosphere to the outside world.

Li Xuanba had been in charge of the marching general ledger for two full days, and there was still no news worthy of his happiness outside the city. His eyes were visibly dark, and his face was tired.

Two days is enough time for Li Xuanba to think about a lot of things.

Everyone knows that Guanxian can't support it for too long, and Li Xuanba has always been worried about it, but after careful consideration in the past two days, Li Xuanba began to wonder, he was very curious if the Tang army could really besiege the city until they ran out of food and grass?

Relying too much on reinforcements led Li Xuanba into a dead end, and when he set his sights outside the city, possibilities appeared in his mind.

Li Yuan didn't fully understand the feud between Li Xuanba and Li Shimin, in his opinion, the Tang Dynasty and the Southern Sui could be at peace and divide the world equally, so he would not allow the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Southern Sui, let alone watch the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty attempt to kill Li Xuanba.

The news that Li Xiaogong disobeyed the military order and led his troops to besiege Guanxian could not be concealed for long, and when the time came, Li Yuan's edict would allow Li Xuanba to get out of the besieged situation. So compared to Li Xuanba, Li Xiaogong should be more anxious.

But Li Xiaogong's performance in the past few days, he can't see the slightest anxiety at all, although he is in a high position, what qualifications does he have to be so calm? Besides, would he really watch countless war horses fall into the stomach of the Southern Sui soldiers?

It took Li Xuanba a long time to finally sort out his thoughts, but unfortunately it was a little late. He let the soldiers pay most of their attention to the city, and the soldiers' vigilance against the Tang army would be somewhat affected. So much so that when the Tang army attacked the city on the fourth day of the siege, the defenders on the city wall were only a few hundred.

The walls of Guanxian are not majestic. In the face of the Tang Dynasty soldiers who poured into the city wall like a flood, those defenders looked shocked, and drumsticks rained down, and the sound alarmed everyone in the city.

The tough horse bandits faced the invincible Tang Army, and the fight was inevitable.

Yang Shilin and Tian Zan led the grain transportation team, and they had not yet had time to return to Huai'an. was surrounded by a thousand Tang Legions, no matter how the two of them explained, the Tang Army just refused to let them go. Looking at the wolf smoke rising from Guanxian, their hearts were very anxious, but they were helpless.

Wang Fubao faced the same problem, they left Guanxian for only half a day, and found that there were 2,000 Tang troops in the rear in hot pursuit, Wang Fubao did not know whether the Tang army still had reinforcements, and did not dare to fight. fought and retreated all the way, and finally was trapped in the Valley of Wolf Teeth and could not get out. The Tang army adopted the strategy of encircling but not attacking, but only trapped the Wolf Tooth Valley and prevented Wang Fubao from breaking through, and did not take the initiative to attack.

Wang Fubao looked at the wolf smoke burning in the direction of Guanxian, prayed silently in his heart, and let out a long sigh.

After Xu Shiji and Li Xuanba separated, they rushed to Lujiang County non-stop and successfully persuaded Lujiang County to surrender to Cheng. When he was about to go to Huainan County, he learned that Li Xuanba was besieged in Guanxian County. Hurriedly dispatched 3,000 soldiers of the Lujiang Army and hurriedly rushed to Guanxian County to rescue.

Unexpectedly, during the march, it was suddenly attacked by more than 10,000 Tang troops, and 3,000 soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and less than 1,000 people finally fled back to Lujiang

The situation of Wang Fubao, Xu Shiji and others quickly reached Li Xiaogong's ears. He looked at Du Ruhui, who was staring closely at the direction of Guanxian, and the respect on his face became more and more obvious.

"Mr. Du, you are really like a god, Xu Shiji is really involved with Li Xuanba." Li Xiaogong coughed lightly and said with a smile: "But." General Nan had already repelled them, killed 800 enemies, captured more than 1,400 people, although Xu Shiji fled back to Lujiang with the remnants of the army, he had no chance to rescue Li Xuanba. ”

"The Wagang thieves have long since lost their prestige, and in the face of the Tang Dynasty's heroes, they will naturally collapse." Du Ruhui had already calculated the ending, his expression remained unchanged, and he said flatly: "I knew that he only had 3,000 soldiers and horses, and the lower officials would definitely persuade the general not to send 10,000 troops to stop him." ”

The whereabouts of Wang Fubao, Yang Shilin, Tian Zan and others have not been able to avoid the eyes and ears of Li Xiaogong and Du Ruhui, so they can make arrangements in advance. But Xu Shiji is an uncertain factor that Du Ruhui suddenly thought of, just in case, Li Xiaogong sent more than 10,000 people from the 30,000 army to stop it, and his importance to Xu Shiji can be seen.

"Although General Nan took away 10,000 soldiers, our army still has 20,000 people, and Li Xuanba has only more than 2,000 people, with 20,000 against 2,000, if this battle is lost, Xiaogong will not have the face to go back to see the people." Li Xiaogong said disapprerovingly: "Everyone in the world says that Li Xuanba has the courage of ten thousand invincibles, Xiaogong has prepared an elite army of 20,000 for him, and Mr. is still worried that he can escape alive?" ”

The battle on the city wall continued, and Du Ruhui watched the soldiers of the two armies continue to fight and die, and there was a trace of uneasiness in his heart for no reason.

In fact, at this time, the Tang army had an advantage, and there was a time when the Tang army even attacked the city tower, if it were not for Li Jiuzhi and Li Song to lead the army to arrive in a hurry, the army at this time had already attacked the city.

Although he had the advantage, Du Ruhui was not as proud as Li Xiaogong, and he kept watching the battle situation between the fields.

Du Ruhui was deeply impressed by the defenders' fearless performance, and he found with his extraordinary observation and memory that the hundreds of defenders who were originally guarding the city wall were all killed and none of them surrendered.

The courage of the defenders made the Tang army fight extremely hard, and the city gate was not captured for a long time, which greatly surprised Du Ruhui's expectations.

A long time ago, Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling were invited to the Tang State Mansion in Luoyang, but he was unwilling to live under the people for a long time and fled back to Beijing.

"Li Xuanba is an enemy of the King of Qin, and it is a stumbling block for the King of Qin to establish a grand cause, and it should be eliminated." Du Ruhui was silent for a while, shook his head slightly, turned to face Li Xiaogong, and said in a deep voice: "But the general should not be underestimated, the thief army under his command is willing to die for him, which shows that this person is indeed very capable, and now that he has not yet shown up, the soldiers have encountered such a tragic resistance, if it continues to delay, it will be very unfavorable to our army." ”

After all, the defenders had a geographical advantage, they suffered heavy casualties, and the casualties of the Tang army were not small, already exceeding two thousand.

When Li Xiaogong heard this, he calmed down and arched his hand: "What Mr. said is very true, the physical strength of the thief army has been almost consumed, Xiaogong will personally lead the troops to climb the city tower and go out for the people of the world!" ”

The horn sounded, and the five thousand elite divisions in the rear, under the leadership of Li Xiaogong, slaughtered the city wall! (To be continued.) )