Chapter Seventy-One: Defeat
After Li Yin and his people waited for half an hour on the diagonal side of Xinglongpo far away, he heard the sound of fighting, thinking that the reinforcements from all walks of life had finally fought with Gu Jue's men.
Li Yin didn't immediately go up to join in the fun, and after the two sides fought for a while, he stretched his waist and commanded the army to rush over.
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After Qu Tutong was able to lead the army across the river, Yang Xuangan had to divide the army into two parts, guarding against Wei Wensheng in the west and blocking Qu Tutong in the east.
Due to the arrival of reinforcements from all walks of life in the Sui Dynasty, the hearts of Yang Xuangan's army have been unstable, since Wei Fusi fled, in just two days, more than 20 high-ranking officials fled with men and horses, although the angry Yang Xuangan sent people to capture some, but this was a very big blow to the morale of the whole army.
Most of those who managed to escape from Yang Xuangan's army took refuge in Fan Zigai, who sensed the opportunity and sent troops to fight against it, but Yang Xuangan's army was repeatedly defeated due to low morale.
On this day, Yang Xuangan, who felt embarrassed, once again plotted with his henchmen.
Li Zixiong took the lead and said: "The army that rescued the eastern capital is coming more and more, our army has been defeated several times, it seems that it is impossible to stay here for a long time, it is better to go straight to the pass, open the Yongfeng warehouse to help the poor people, and the land of Sanfu can be waved to decide, we have the treasury, or rely on the Xiongguan to defend ourselves, or to the east to fight for the world, we can also achieve the cause of the overlord!" ”
Yang Xuangan also felt that there was only one way to live at this time, so he nodded and agreed. He looked at Li Mi again: "Master, do you have anything to teach me?" ”
Li Mi said: "Honghua County's Taishou Yuan Hongji has always been friendly with the Yang family, he has a strong army in Longyou, we can threaten him to rebel and send a messenger to meet you, let's take this opportunity to enter the customs, we can deceive everyone." ”
Yang Xuangan shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I got the news not long ago that the faint monarch has sent Li Yuan to replace Yuan Honghei, and now the thirteen counties of Guanyou are all under Li Yuan's temperance. ”
"What!" Li Mi was shocked when he heard this. He was quite calm before, just because he felt that Yang Xuangan still had a good chess piece like Yuan Hongsi, but he didn't expect that the only good chess piece now didn't exist, so he panicked instantly.
On July 23, Yang Guang took the Yang clan of Hongnong Huayin County as his guide, completely abandoned Luoyang, led troops to Xitu Guanzhong, and said to people everywhere: "I have broken Luoyang and taken Guanzhong!" ”
When Fan Zigai, Yu Wenshu, Qu Tutong and others found out, they immediately covered their troops and chased after them.
Yang Xuangan's army abandoned the baggage and rushed all the way to the west, and entered Hongnong County, which is the old nest of the Yang family.
There is a kind father here who feels to Yang Xuan: "The palace city of Hongnong Palace, which is not far from here, is empty, and there are many chestnut rice, which is easy to attack, and you can cut off the enemy's food when you enter, and you can cut the land of Yiyang when you retreat!" ”
Yang Xuan thought that this plan was very good, and then commanded the army to go to Hongnong Palace.
The Taishou of Hongnong County, Yang Zhiji, the king of Cai (the son of Emperor Wen of Sui), said to his officials and subordinates a few days ago: "Yang Xuangan heard that the imperial army is coming, and he will definitely plan to go west to seek Guanzhong, if his plan succeeds, it will be difficult to defeat him, we should use a strategy to contain him, so that he cannot enter the army, and within ten days, we can capture him." ”
So he sent a kind old man to say that to Yang Xuangan, in fact, Hongnong Palace is not empty, on the contrary, this place has already been heavily deployed by Yang Zhi, and the terrain here is more dangerous, which is easier to defend than the county town of Hongnong County.
When Yang Xuangan's troops approached the palace city of Hongnong Palace, Yang Zhiji was afraid that Yang Xuangan's heart to attack the city was not firm, so he climbed the female wall of the city and scolded Yang Xuangan in vicious language.
Yang Xuangan was furious, immediately stopped his advance, and prepared to personally lead the army to attack the city.
Li Mi sensed that something was wrong, and immediately persuaded Yang Xuangan: "Duke Chu has now deceived everyone into marching westward, and the soldiers are very fast, not to mention that the chasing troops are coming, how can they stay here and delay." If you can't occupy Tongguan forward, and you have no place to defend when you retreat, how can you be self-contained when the chasing soldiers arrive? ”
Yang Xuangan, who was furious, did not listen to Li Mi's advice, and immediately led the army to attack the city.
Subsequently, Yang Xuangan set fire to the gate of Hongnong Palace City according to Li Zixiong's plan, but Yang Zhiji set a bigger fire from inside the city, and the fire burned violently near the city wall, so Yang Xuangan's soldiers could not enter the city, and the city was not captured after a day.
"Duke Chu is not good, the Duke of Pushan left the camp last night!" Yang Xuangan, who had a dry mouth, suddenly heard the news, and slammed everything nearby to the ground, and scolded: "A Fang Shi used to tell me that Li Mi has a backbone in the back of his head, and he is not a reliable person, but now it has come true!" ”
At this time, Yang Xuangan's younger brother Yang Jishan hurriedly walked in, and said with a panicked expression: "Big brother, something is wrong, Fan Zigai, Yu Wenshu, Lai Hu'er, Qu Tutong, and Wei Wensheng have led a total of more than 200,000 troops, which is less than thirty miles away from us. ”
Yang Xuangan's face changed, he looked at Hongnong Palace with resentment, and then ordered the whole army to rush west.
Yuwenshu, Wei Wensheng, Qu Tutong and other armies caught up with Yang Xuangan's army at Huangtianyuan (now forty-five miles southwest of Qixiang County, Henan) in Wen, Sisheng.
Yang Xuangan led the army to Pandou (near Huangtianyuan), set up a battle formation, stretched for fifty miles, and fought and walked.
The armies of the Sui Dynasty divided into armies, and Yang Xuangan's army was defeated three times in one day.
When Yang Xuangan led his army to a place called Dong Duyuan (not far from the west of Pandou), he knew that if he continued like this, there would be only a dead end, so he simply stopped retreating, and set up a battle formation on the first day of the eighth month to face off with the Sui army.
The armies of the Sui attacked Yang Xuangan together, with the armies of Laihu'er, Fan Zigai, and Wei Wensheng rushing to the forefront, and the armies of Yuwenshu and Qu Tutong attacking on the flank.
Li Yin was also in Yuwenshu's army at this time, but it was purely soy sauce, because the Sui army was too numerous, and anyone could see that Yang Xuangan was at the end of the road at this time, and it was the time to grab great achievements, so Li Yin's "miscellaneous army" was arranged far away, and there were not many opportunities to harvest people.
The two sides fought fiercely for more than an hour, and when they were stalemate, Qu Tutong led the strange soldiers to attack the rear of Yang Xuangan's army, and Yang Xuangan's army was in chaos in an instant, and the soldiers began to flee in large groups.
Yang Xuangan's army was defeated in this Dong Duyuan, surrendered to surrender, fled to escape, Yang Xuangan himself saw that the general trend had gone, only sighed, led the crowd to break through, and when he got rid of the Sui army, there were only more than ten horsemen left around him.