As seen by the soldiers of the Hundred Battles Army, it was indeed Li Congjing himself who led the army to come to the aid of Xuanwu County. ↖，

The day before yesterday, when discussing with the staff of the army the candidates for the aid and leading the troops, there were still many uncertainties in the matter, and the responsibility was heavy and there was no room for mistakes, and Li Congjing's most trusted generals of the Hundred Battles Army had already been sent out.

Since Li Congjing appeared outside Xuanwu City, it means that the time he has been waiting for has come; On the other hand, it also means that the key to victory and defeat has also arrived.

This time, Li Congjing led the troops and horses, and almost half of the elite of the army was transferred, totaling about 15,000, and the more than 20,000 soldiers who remained in Zizhou continued to maintain the offensive against Zizhou. But the brave generals in the army, such as Guo Wei, Xia Luqi, Shi Yanchao, Li Congke, Shi Jingjiao, etc., he brought them all.

In the Battle of Liangchuan, Zizhou was not captured before this, and the center of gravity of the battlefield has shifted from Zizhou to Xuanwu, and it is just right to invest so much power in Xuanwu.

Since Li Congjing personally led the army, the details are naturally impeccable.

The first is the timing of reinforcements rushing into the battlefield.

Li Renhan's troops fought fiercely with the Hundred Battles Army for many days without conquering the city, not only did the soldiers lose their initial sharpness and morale was not as high as the beginning, but as the besieging party, they fought for a long time and suffered a lot of damage.

Secondly, it is the control of the field of vision between Xuanwu and Zizhou. The confrontation between the scouts and rangers of the two armies, as well as the timing of the king's division to completely eliminate the Xichuan scouts and rangers, were all impeccable.

Again, after Li Congjing's deliberate arrangement, Wang Shi's offensive against Zizhou did not use all his strength at first, which made Wang Shi's offensive flourish day by day, so that Zizhou and Xuanwu gave Wang Shi the illusion that Wang Shi wanted to seize Zizhou desperately before the Xichuan army captured Xuanwu. In this way, the fighting in Zizhou will not stop, and the Xichuan reinforcements will not be in danger.

Last but not least, the Hundred Battles Army had been holding out in Xuanwu City for half a month.

Therefore, Wang Shi galloped all the way from Zizhou, and the Xichuan army outside Xuanwu City did not get the information in advance, and when the army was only ten miles away from Xuanwu City, the Xichuan army, which realized it later, had no time to react too much.

It was too late to evacuate.

If Li Renhan's siege force was only half, and half of them were left to deal with other situations, he would not have fallen into such a situation, but the battle between his troops and the Hundred Battles Army had already made Li Renhan have to dispatch all his troops and do his best to attack the city.

Even so, it was half a month away.

After Li Renhan learned of the whereabouts of Wang Shi, he hurriedly ordered the siege army to retreat, hurriedly adjusted the formation of the whole army, and arranged the camp to defend, but it was too late.

The various divisions of the Wang Division, under the condition that Li Congjing personally charged into battle, with the momentum of thunder, were brave, and fought into the unstable Xichuan army formation, like a huge torrent rushing into the village, sweeping the houses and huts, like a huge sharp blade cutting through the flesh of the fish, and the flesh and blood flowed sideways.

Around Xuanwu City, within a radius of ten miles, the crowd surged, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

The nearly exhausted army of the hundred battles, unwilling to watch the fire from the other side, opened the city gates, and fought out of the city. The anger they had accumulated after days of passive beatings was finally released at this moment.

Li Congjing led his army from the east and quickly entered the enemy formation outside the eastern wall of Xuanwu City.

After tearing the formation, he ordered Guo Wei and Gao Xingzhou to lead their respective divisions, divided into two units, north and south, to kill the south and north gates respectively, and converge at the west gate.

He himself led the elite cavalry, like a wedge, to attack in front of the Xichuan military camp, intercepting and strangling all the Xichuan troops who tried to return to the camp.

The Xichuan army outside Xuanwu City was originally divided into three parts, one fighting on the four city walls, and the other in front of the four city walls, ready to replace the siege department at any time, and the last part stayed in the camp.

Among them, there are very few Xichuan soldiers who stayed in the camp, and there are only two or three thousand people together.

After Li Congjing led the army into the battlefield, the situation on the battlefield changed.

The soldiers of the Xichuan army who attacked the city quickly retreated after receiving the order, intending to cover each other with the pressure of the formation, and retreated into the camp to defend it, while the soldiers in the camp were limited to a limited number, although there were moves to go out of the camp to invoke, but it was not large-scale.

The Hengchong Army, the Longxiang Army, the Wanzhou Army, the Wuxin Army and the elite of the Protectorate and Baoyi armies from Zizhou were led by their own generals, and under the unified arrangement of Li Congjing, the main attack was the Xichuan Army's suppression of the formation.

After the Hundred Battles Army left the city, on the battlefields in the east, south, and north of the city, the Wang Division formed a three-sided attack, intending to encircle and defeat the Xichuan army, and at the same time maintain the posture of attacking westward in the overall situation, driving and encircling the Xichuan army to the west.

The Wang division came to help, which surprised the Xichuan army, which made the soldiers of the Xichuan army panic, and they didn't know how many soldiers and horses the Wang division came to help, only to see the overwhelming black armor frenzy swept in, unstoppable, and most of the soldiers were in turmoil. On the one hand, although the Xichuan army was caught off guard and could not effectively change the formation to protect itself and meet the attack, on the other hand, the morale quickly fell into a slump under the fierce offensive of the Wang Division.

Therefore, Wang's division was like a bamboo, and the Xichuan army was defeated and retreated.

Needless to say, although since Li Siyuan succeeded to the throne, except for the battle of Jingnan, he has hardly been on the battlefield in four years, but today he is charging into battle, and his brave posture is better than that year.

In front of Li Congjing, who was in black robe and black armor, almost no one in the Xichuan army could stop his footsteps for a moment.

Among the Wang Division, there are veterans such as Gao Xingzhou, Guo Wei, and Xia Ruqi, and there are rookies such as Shi Yanchao, Fu Yanlin, and Shi Chonggui.

But among the generals, if you want to say that the people who are desperate and brave and fearful, it is not these generals and colonels, but Li Congke and Shi Jingjiao.

Among them, Shi Jingjiao is the most fierce and not afraid of death.

He knew better than anyone that this battle could only be won, not defeated.

If this battle is won, not to mention how much military merit Li Congjing is willing to give him, at least it will not be too ugly, and he can still maintain a glimmer of hope for a comeback; If this battle is defeated, Li Congjing will definitely take him to the knife, and it will only depend on Li Congjing's words to hit the bottom at that time.

And with the defeat of Jianzhou, Li Congjing will blame him at that time, and no one will have a reason to intercede for him.

Although there was only a glimmer of hope for victory, Shi Jingjiao had to gamble his life. Therefore, among the various departments, the men and horses of the headquarters led by him are the most brave and the most regardless of casualties.

Even the biggest casualties. But now, abandoning the car to protect the handsome is also a helpless move.

Although the fierce battle was only two hours, outside Xuanwu City, there was already blood flowing and corpses everywhere.

The reason for such a tragic phenomenon was that the Nishikawa army had been almost completely defeated. There was no Xichuan army at the east gate, and the troops were either killed in battle or surrendered. The Xichuan army in the north and south has been routed by nearly half.

Those who can barely stabilize their positions are the thousands of Xichuan soldiers outside the West Gate. Because it is the last position, there is still some residual strength.

Li Renhan, Zhao Tingyin, and Zhang Zhiye were also in Ximen at this time.

It's just that now, anyone can see that the general trend of the Xichuan Army has gone.

It is also a loss that the three generals are led by the elite of the Xichuan Army, if it is an ordinary part, I am afraid that at this time, I am afraid that it has already scattered and fled, and it will not be the same.

Surprisingly, Li Renhan was reluctant to retreat. Not only did he not want to retreat, but he personally went into battle and fought in front, as if he did not hesitate to kill himself, and he also wanted to do this meaningless act.

Li Congjing saw that the general trend had been decided, and he was organizing people to burn down the Xichuan camp.

An army of Xichuan suddenly appeared in the west, rushing towards it with the momentum of rolling thunder.

The first to discover this Xichuan army was Guo Wei's department. Guo Wei found Shuai Qi and personally came to report the change to Li Congjing.

"Dashuai, I'm afraid the old thief Meng Zhixiang has arrived!" When Guo Wei, who was in silver armor and white spear, held the reins of his horse, the blade of the spear was still dripping blood.

"It's just in time!" Li Congjing stopped his pace of fighting, but he sneered and didn't care at all.

"This thief is cunning, and there is no report from our scouts in advance, and now the old thief is close to ten miles! Marshal, how can the last general meet the enemy? When Guo Wei asked this, there was a look of eagerness to try.

"Meng Zhixiang came in time, and there are 10,000 soldiers and horses, if he is ordered to join forces with Li Renhan's troops, the troops will be better than our army, at first glance, it is indeed quite a formation." It's not that it looks quite powerful, it's really threatening, but Li Congjing is still not half nervous, but seems confident.

He did have a lot of confidence.

This time Meng Zhixiang galloped to the aid of Xuanwu City, it only took four days on the road, and the march was extremely fast, not only that, because he left Chengdu secretly, the army was also secretly dispatched, when others found that Meng Zhixiang was no longer in Chengdu, he had actually left Chengdu for nearly 100 miles.

This "bystander" includes the Military Intelligence Service.

Although the Military Intelligence Service used the "Flying Pigeon Mission" this time, it did not buy much time. This also means that after Li Congjing received the report from the Military Intelligence Department, even if he immediately sent troops to aid Xuanwu City at that time, he was comparable to Meng Zhixiang in time.

Because Chengdu is only more than 200 miles away from Xuanwu County.

At that time, did Li Congjing realize this problem?

Realized.

After realizing this problem, did Li Congjing immediately send troops?

That's true.

Not only was the army sent immediately, but the troops were already in a state of readiness for the troops, which saved the preparation time of the troops.

Because the rush to Xuanwu County was a set policy, what Li Congjing had to wait for was just an opportunity.

Originally, if Meng Zhixiang did not rush to Xuanwu County immediately, Li Congjing might have waited for two more days, but since Meng Zhixiang had already come to help, Li Congjing had to act in advance in order to arrive in Xuanwu County before Meng Zhixiang.

The reason why Meng Zhixiang secretly left Chengdu and secretly mobilized the army was to gain about two days. In fact, he did buy this time, and forced Li Congjing to act early.

But Li Congjing also rushed to Xuanwu City ahead of Meng Zhixiang.

Although it was only an hour or two early.

It was these two hours that allowed Li Congjing to open up the situation and take the initiative.

The question is, Li Renhan should know Meng Zhixiang's whereabouts, why didn't he hold on to these two hours?

The answer is simple, because Li Renhan didn't know that Li Congjing would come. When he knew, even if he knew that Meng Zhixiang was about to come to help, he couldn't control the situation on the battlefield.

Li Congjing looked at Guo Wei and said seriously: "The enemy and us have fought here, and the strategy has been exhausted, and there is no use for calculation. Thankfully, in this aspect of the competition, we did not lose to Meng Zhixiang. And what will determine the victory or defeat next is the real competition between the combat strength of the two armies. General Guo, the brave wins when they meet on the narrow road, and those who are fighting here today are the elite of my Tang Dynasty royal division, do you have the heart to fight to the death? ”