Chapter 179: Chess Meets Opponents

When Jing Yuncong was ordered to be in danger, he personally led 3,000 soldiers and horses to Fengtian about 100 miles west of Chang'an and stationed there, ready to give the invading Tubo army a head-on attack. However, two days passed in the blink www.biquge.info of an eye, and the soldiers and horses led by Jing Yuncong not only did not see the shadow of a Tubo sergeant, but heard the news that the emperor abandoned the city and ran eastward and Chang'an fell.

As soon as the news reached the army, from the partial generals to the ordinary sergeants, all of them were full of emotion, and they all flocked to Jing Yuncong's Chinese military tent, demanding that Jing Yuncong immediately give an order, and the whole army immediately returned to Chang'an to recapture the imperial capital from the Tubo people.

Seeing with his own eyes that the 3,000 forbidden troops led by Wu Bi to him had such high morale, Jing Yuncong felt both excited and deeply regretted that Chang'an had fallen so quickly. If the emperor was willing to choose to stay at this critical juncture, personally sit in the Daming Palace, and command the forbidden army to defend the city, the Tubo army would never break into Chang'an overnight by relying on the Yulin army under Wu Bi with strict military discipline and high morale.

Now, although Jing Yuncong, as the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses and the head of the marshal's mansion, can give orders to the world's soldiers and horses on behalf of the world, but at present, there are only 3,000 soldiers under his direct command, and if he wants to recapture Chang'an from the Tubo people with this army, he is afraid that it will be more difficult than ascending to the sky.

It was precisely because he was soberly aware of this that Jing Yuncong did not hesitate to draw his sword in public to warn, and strictly ordered the three armies to stand by in place and not to make any rash moves. Subsequently, he sent scouts to inquire about the news, and learned that all the way east, the Northern Route Army led by Zhang Liang was about 30,000 horses, and also learned that the main force of the 60,000 Scorpion Army led by Na Simo was heavily damaged in Hezhou, almost half of the dead and wounded, and is currently resting in the city of Hezhou to wait for help.

When these two news came one after another, Jing Yuncong's eyebrows, which had been locked, expanded. He immediately made a major decision, while ordering the marching Sima to lead 500 soldiers to sneak to the vicinity of Chang'an, make every effort to collect the defeated troops defeated by Tubo, contact the gentry and people around Chang'an in many ways, increase the strength of the army, and make full preparations for the siege of Chang'an in the future, and at the same time do his best 2,500 men and horses, led by himself, to the west quickly, storm Fenning, trying to cut off the only retreat fortress of the Tubo army in one fell swoop, and separate the Zhang Liangsuo department that attacked Chang'an from the Nasimo part of Hezhou.

It can be said that Jing Yuncong's move is a risky move, if he fails to attack Fenning in a short period of time, then the 2,500 men and horses he led will be in the middle of the front and rear attacks of the two Tubo armies, facing the danger of annihilation.

Fortunately, Zhang Liangbing took the lead in seizing Jingzhou without blood, and his revenge swelled sharply, and he only cared about leading the whole army to drive straight to Chang'an, and did not leave enough garrison troops in Fenning and other fortresses along the way, which created an opportunity for Jingyuncong.

As a result, after Jing Yuncong led his army to the outside of Fenning City, it took less than two hours to repel the 500 defenders in the city, successfully occupy the Fenning Fortress, and initially realized his strategic intention.

As soon as he entered Fenning City, Jing Yuncong immediately made an astonishing decision: he ordered more than 2,000 soldiers of the forbidden army under his command to spread banners around Fenning City, and deliberately released the news, falsely claiming that Deputy Marshal Jing Yuncong was under the emperor's secret decree and personally led 10,000 elite forbidden troops to capture Fenning.

As soon as the news spread ten, ten, and hundreds, it quickly spread in the area of Chang'an in the east and Jingzhou in the west. Relying on the lofty prestige that Jing Yuncong had established in the government and the opposition with a hundred battles, the sergeants who were defeated by the Tubo army all the way and hid in the mountains and forests and countryside as soon as they heard Jing Yuncong's recruitment order, they rushed to Fenning in an endless stream to join the army, and in just three days, Jing Yuncong's command really expanded to nearly 10,000 troops.

At the same time, Na Simo, the Tubo general who rushed to Chang'an because he was not relieved to let Zhang Liang go, immediately became uneasy when he heard the news that Jing Yuncong led his army to occupy Fenning. After all, Zhang Liang only brought less than 30,000 soldiers and horses, the lone army went deep, by the Emperor of Middle-earth abandoned the city and ran eastward, it took only one night to capture the imperial capital of Chang'an, and now the throat road leading to the return of Western Xinjiang was cut off by Jing Yuncong led the army, making the 30,000 Tubo army that invaded Chang'an City become an out-and-out lone army. Without much effort, the 30,000 Tibetan troops, including himself, were trapped in the isolated city of Chang'an.

In the past two days, Na Ximo was worried about the inside line of the court that appeared in the Daming Palace, and scolded Tang Kuan for being incompetent, and he couldn't even catch a few small spies. However, he was worthy of being the commander who had helped Chide Tsampu to clear the civil strife and unify the Tibetan tribes, and when the turmoil in his heart was fully vented and his mind gradually calmed down, Nashima decisively made a series of decisions that can be called wise, and it was this series of decisions that had an extremely crucial impact on the evolution of the future war situation.

First of all, Nasimo resolutely implemented the strategic concept of using the Han Dynasty put forward by Lange, and supported Li Chenghong, the nephew of the late Princess Kunyang, who was caught by the Tubo soldiers who were stranded in Chang'an City and was captured by the Tubo soldiers patrolling the city, to take the throne in the Daming Palace, and appointed a group of courtiers including Tang Kuan and other ministers in the name of the puppet emperor, with the intention of greatly weakening the appeal of the emperor who abandoned the city and ran east among the Han people.

Then, Nasimo issued a holy decree in the name of Li Chenghong, ordering the people in Chang'an City, regardless of men, women, old and young, to rush to the twelve city gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest to assist the Tubo army in defending the city and serve as cannon fodder. It was publicly announced that all those who assisted in defending the city would be given official status after the situation in Chang'an was turned into a disaster, and they would not have to pay money and food from now on. This decision not only invisibly sent thousands of human shields to the Tibetan army defending the city, but also was more insidious and vicious, and it could effectively break the siege morale of the Han soldiers outside the city by using the Han people in Chang'an City, so as to reduce the opponent's siege strength to a large extent. (To be continued.) )