Chapter 21: The Burning Fire

Li Hun's cavalry was intercepted by Li Yuanba in the valley, Li Yuanba rode alone, and the Sui army was killed in a big chaos, and at this time, the Tang soldiers on the mountains on both sides took advantage of the situation to attack, and for a time the rolling wood and stone bows and crossbow arrows smashed down like raindrops, and the Sui cavalry could not be used under such terrain, so they could only want to retreat, but Li Yuanba did not want to let them go, and kept chasing and beating with two giant hammers in the back. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

And even more unfavorable is that the Sui army in charge of the palace Guoyi army was also dragged by Li Shimin, and defeated with the two wings of the cavalry, Li Hun was shocked, if it wasn't for the fact that his subordinates didn't want Cui Min to block Li Yuanba's hammer for him, he was afraid that he had been beaten into a pulp at this time, and seeing that the Sui army soldiers were in turmoil, the soldiers had no heart to fight, and the soldiers were afraid, he knew that this battle could not be fought, so he immediately issued an order to retreat, and the Sui army failed to take Tongguan, but he paid a huge price for casualties.

At this time, Li Yuan, who was besieging Chang'an, received the report of the great victory sent by Li Shimin Tongguan, and immediately ordered the news to be conveyed to the soldiers of the whole army to improve the morale of the soldiers, and then he asked the soldiers to shoot this news into the city with arrows.

Wei Xuan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, saw that the Tang army was strong and the Chang'an army was unstable, so he suggested to Yang Yu, the acting king, to let him give up Chang'an and enter Hanzhong by meridian road, so that he could avoid Li Tang's army.

Li Yuan was overjoyed after hearing the news, the defenders in Chang'an City were close to 40,000, although his army was more numerous, but it was still very difficult to take such a strong city, and the siege could not be delayed, the longer it dragged on, the more unstable the army's morale became, he currently needed a foothold, he didn't expect the Sui army to defeat itself, it seems that they must be worried that the army of Tongguan will rush to Chang'an and attack Chang'an with themselves, so they fled in a hurry, and the second son Shimin has made great contributions!

While Li Yuan sent troops into Chang'an, pacified the people, and took over the defense, he sent cavalry to pursue the Sui army, and the 40,000 Sui troops wanted to run, but it was not so easy!

The news of the defeat of the Sui army in the first battle of Tongguan was like a bird with wings, and it quickly spread throughout the Great Sui, and the rebel armies around the country had been stimulated and encouraged once when Yang Xuangan rebelled, but Yang Xuangan had such a good opportunity, and even hit the foot of Luoyang City, but he was defeated in the hands of Yang Tong, who had not dried up, and with Emperor Yang rushing back from Liaodong with a large army, for a time Wu Benlang General Chen Ling, Wuwei General Qu Tutong, Zuo Yiwei General Yu Wenshu, The right Xiaowei general came to Hu'er and Zhang Xutuo, who had originally supported a piece of heaven in Shandong, and the rebel armies in various places were frantically suppressed, and for a time the Sui army had the momentum of extinguishing the fire in the world.

But at this time, Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang Guo, who also belonged to the nobles of Guanlong, raised troops in Taiyuan, although Li Yuan's reputation was not as loud as Yang Xuangan, the Duke of Chu, but his momentum was much better than Yang Xuangan, if Yang Xuangan belonged to the high open and low go, then Li Yuan belonged to the low open and high go, he only had more than 10,000 people at the beginning of the army, and under the siege and interception of more than 50,000 Xiaoguo troops in Yuwenshu, he actually successfully entered Guanzhong, and it was like a snowball getting stronger and stronger, which is not counting, He immediately took the important checkpoint between Chang'an and Luoyang - Tongguan, and then sent troops to attack Chang'an, which had the potential to sweep the entire Guanzhong, and then fight against the Sui Court, and countless pairs of eyes in the world focused on Li Yuan's body at this time.

Yang Guang was furious and sent Li Hun, the newly promoted general of the Right Xiaowei, to lead an army of 100,000 to exterminate Li Tang, everyone knew that this battle would be a battle that would decide Li Tang's fate, so countless spies and eyeliners from all sides were sent to both sides of Tongguan, wanting to see who could laugh at the end of this earth-shattering battle.

Judging from the strength on paper, Li Yuanbing is a major general and a widow, and he sent his second son as the commander of the army, which is nothing, and he is a father and son soldier, but this Li Shimin is only fifteen or sixteen years old, can he be the opponent of the old and cunning Li Hun? And although the Tang army has Tongguan natural danger, but after all, they have few people, Li Hun has an army of 100,000, and he also brought back a large number of siege equipment from Liaodong, such as a trebuchet with the power of ten thousand jun, a tower cart as high as several zhang, a city rush vehicle weighing more than 20,000 catties, a Mengdou car that can resist the attack of bows and arrows and spears, in addition to hundreds of bed crossbows, and more than 20,000 cavalry.

These Tang troops do not have it, the strength of the Sui army on paper is several Yang Xuangan of the Tang army, so everyone is not optimistic about the Tang army, and some people also began to sigh, they are all the fine work of the righteous army in various places, if the Tang army loses, then Li Tang will be the same as the previous Yang Xuangan, just a flash in the pan, then the Sui army will inevitably turn the gun again after exterminating Li Tang and kill them again, their life is not good.

It's just that the result of the battle of Tongguan was unexpected, Li Tang was defeated first and then won, Li Hun's army was actually defeated by a thin man called Li Yuanba, and then was attacked by Li Shimin's army that was killed from Tongguan, Li Hun couldn't resist it, and led the army to defeat.

At this time, everyone suddenly remembered one thing, that is, a Langya list that was widely circulated on the rivers and lakes before, didn't the Langya list say that Li Yuan had a son named Li Yuanba, who made two drum urns and golden hammers, and he was ranked first by the Langya list, saying that he had the courage to be unstoppable!

At this time, look at the person who is jumping in the Sui Army, isn't he Li Yuanba?

For a while, everyone's hearts were shocked as if they had been struck by lightning!

The results of the battle of Tongguan greatly encouraged the anti-Sui rebels in various places (said to be the rebel army, but like locusts, the author despised it), and Zhai Rang teamed up with Wang Bodang, Shan Xiongxin, and Xu Shiji to raise troops against the Sui in Dongjun, they occupied Wagang Village, calling themselves Wagang Army, and for a while, Zhang Xutuo had just cleaned up the back garden and burst into flames.

And that's not all, Xiao Milling in the south raised troops in Jiangling and established Xiliang, and for a time the situation in the south also became treacherous, after Xiao Milling raised troops, Du Fuwei, Shen Faxing, Li Zitong and others also raised troops against Sui one after another, Yang Guang was almost angry and vomited blood three liters, he didn't care about the chaos in the north, but the situation in the south was chaotic, Yang Guang couldn't sit still at all!