readx; The actual situation was not as Ge Shuhan thought, Li Qingan saluted first and then soldiers, Li Qingan did not launch an attack, but still maintained a state of confrontation between the two armies, a few days passed, the time entered July, and sooner or later began to have a hint of coolness, and the Ge Shuhan army in the river valley was no longer like a few days ago, and the restless heart of the army gradually quieted down. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The two armies maintained a state of confrontation in this way, which was exactly what Ge Shuhan was looking forward to, there was no need to fight a vicious battle with the Anxi army, and when Gao Xianzhi's side came out first, he would preserve his strength.

His daily thing is to drink the medicinal wine that Li Qing'an gave him, and then he kept urging the food and materials in the rear, the medicinal wine sent by Li Qing'an did have an effect, although it did not eradicate the foot pain, but the pain level was significantly reduced, which made Ge Shuhan very excited, in order to get this medicinal wine for a long time, he wrote a letter of thanks, sent someone to send it to Li Qing'an, praised the medicinal wine for its miraculous effect, and was willing to pay a lot of money to buy this giant scorpion.

Li Qing'an wrote back to him, saying that the production of this giant scorpion was very small, only found in the red-hot and humid forests of Sindh and Punjab all year round, and he would send people to catch them, and he ordered someone to send a few bottles of medicinal wine to let Ge Shuhan recuperate.

The atmosphere of the imminent war has been significantly eased by the two bosses' diplomacy of medicine and alcohol, and the conflict between the two bosses seems to be far away.

At the same time that the situation on the Western Front was slowing down, three large-scale battles took place on the Eastern Front in a row.

．．．．．．． Luogu Road is also called Fu Luo Road, Hanzhong to Chang'an, take Luogu, where 652 miles, the valley is 420 miles long, of which the road bends 80 miles, where 84 plates, there are two big valley mouths of Fu Valley and Luogu, heavy posts and streams, precipices and rocks, since ancient times it is the place of the situation.

It is the most convenient road from Hanzhong to Chang'an, nearly more than 300 roads than Bao Xie, since ancient times it is the only way for Guanzhong to go to Hanzhong and even Bashu, Li Longji is to go to Chang'an with Gao Xianzhi, before that, the Guanzhong army of 10,000 people was deployed in Luogu Pass first, blocking the road to the north of the Jiannan army, with the gathering of the armies of both sides, the battle for Luogu Pass has become the focus of the battle between the two sides.

The drums were like thunder, the battle flag fluttered on Luogu Pass, and the black and suppressed Jiannan Army launched an attack on the Luogu Pass position in Laojun Ridge wave after wave, the arrows were like dense rain, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

Guo Ziyi's eyes stared grimly at the tide of the Jiannan Army rushing in, and he gave an order, "Shoot!" ”

The five thousand crossbowmen fired in unison, overwhelmingly towards the dense crowd, and suddenly the screams were so loud that the soldiers fell to the ground, and the dense rain of arrows suppressed the attacking soldiers, making it difficult for them to take a single step.

A few miles away, Li Longji rode a horse and stood under an apricot-yellow banner, his eyes were anxiously watching the two armies fight, Yang Guozhong also rode on a horse, accompanied by him, most of the clan magnates who escaped from Chang'an took the meridian road to Hanzhong, and Yang Guozhong took the Luogu road, because of his high status, the imperial court did not have an order to stop him, the defenders of Luogu Pass did not embarrass him, and directly let him pass, just on the way to meet the Jiannan army north.

Li Longji was overjoyed by Yang Guozhong's arrival, and immediately named him the right minister of Zhongshu Ling, and marched to Chang'an with him.

At this time, Yang Guozhong saw that Luogu Pass could not be attacked for a long time, and he couldn't help but worry, so he reminded Li Longji: "Your Majesty, the minister is worried that the army of the Northern Dynasty will take the Meridian Valley and cut off our back road, especially the grain road, if the grain road is broken, we can't move forward, we can't retreat, I am worried that we will be trapped in the valley and die, Your Majesty, to force the soldiers to fight to the death." ”

The anxiety in Li Longji's eyes deepened, and he immediately ordered: "Spread my will to Gao Xianzhi, and order him to send more troops to attack the fortified positions, regardless of the cost, he must take Luogu Pass!" ”

The will was transmitted to the front army, Gao Xianzhi was even more anxious, he also knew that Hanzhong was empty, if the Guanzhong army attacked Hanzhong in the Meridian Valley and cut off his logistics and grass, the consequences would be unimaginable.

In fact, Gao Xianzhi's original intention was not to attack Guanzhong, their strength was not strong, and there were Li Qingan's 70,000 Anxi army in Guanzhong, and 50,000 Shuofang army, this is the 120,000 army, although the number is less than them, but the strength is far more than them, especially Li Qing'an's 70,000 army, all of which are Anxi's 100-battle division, Gao Xianzhi knows better than anyone the strength of the Great Food Army, and the Anxi army can defeat them battle after battle, which shows that the Anxi army under Li Qing'an is far stronger than the Anxi army under his rule.

In addition, there are nearly 200,000 troops in Guanzhong, although most of these troops are newly recruited, but many of them are former government soldiers, who can be put into the battlefield with only a little training, plus Ge Shuhan has three swords on both sides, there is no news at all on the side of the Baochuan Road, it is estimated that he does not dare to confront Li Qing'an's Anxi army, such an army, such a cooperation, each in the same bed and different dreams, how can it be possible to beat the combined army of Li Qingan and Guo Ziyi?

But Li Longji was eager to capture Chang'an, and Gao Xianzhi had to reluctantly send troops, at this time, a horse rushed over, and said in a loud voice: "There is a decree in the saint, Gao Shuai will send an army to attack again, and take Luogu Pass at any cost." ”

"At any cost, if all the people die, what's the point of entering the customs?"

Gao Xianzhi secretly complained, so he had to order: "The third, fourth, and fifth armies are all thrown into battle, and the first one to attack Luogu Pass will be rewarded with 10,000 yuan!" ”

The Jiannan army invested 30,000 troops, forming a strong pressure of nearly 50,000 troops to attack Luogu Pass, the army was like a sea tide, the soldiers were like forests, the soldiers carried a long ladder to run forward, the drums were beaten intensively, and the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky, three defensive ditches had been dug in front of Luogu Pass, each deep ditch was two zhang wide, one zhang and five feet deep, and it was necessary to use wooden planks to build a bridge to the past, which increased the great difficulty for the attacker, and Guo Ziyi deployed eight thousand crossbowmen behind the three defensive ditches, Tens of thousands of tiny thistles were scattered within 100 steps of the ravine, forming an effective defense system.

At this time, the drums in the Jiannan army were beating loudly again, and 30,000 people formed five groups of phalanxes, and once again launched a large-scale attack, the largest attack since the beginning of the war.

After several failed attacks, Gao Xianzhi learned a lesson, no longer attacked, but took positional warfare, step by step, he used the method of defending the bow and arrow of the Turgist people, and improvised twenty leather frames, which were nailed with wood, and the front was a wooden plank, and the wooden boards were covered with raw cowhides, each one was ten zhang long and two zhang high, and was carried forward by two hundred soldiers to resist bows and arrows, and thousands of soldiers could hide behind each leather frame, and when attacking, each soldier held a shield or plank, so that The leather frames and shields formed a hard shell, and the 20,000 troops were no longer afraid of the enemy's sharp bows and arrows.

In the rumbling drums, the offensive wave of the Jiannan Army had been pushed to a hundred and fifty steps away from the ravine, and also entered the range of the crossbow arrows, at this time, Guo Ziyi sneered and ordered: "Bed crossbow ready!" ”

The crossbow army dodged and pushed up three hundred bed crossbows from behind, and two soldiers in front of each bed crossbow tightened their bowstrings, and each bed crossbow had nine arrows on it, and nine consecutive rings of one shot, which was extremely powerful.

"Shoot!"

With Guo Ziyi's order, three hundred bed crossbows, two thousand seven hundred arrows shot out together, the arrows are like thunder, the strength is strong, although the Jiannan army leather frame can block the crossbow arrows, but it can't block the power of the bed crossbow, suddenly, the leather frame was shot through, the two-foot-long iron arrow shattered the plank and beam, the leather frame became fragmented, the strong crossbow arrow shot through the plank and cowhide, and also shot through the soldiers hiding behind, only to hear the screams, a piece of soldiers died tragically to the ground, the leather frame overturned, revealing a large group of bewildered troops.

At this time, the eight thousand crossbowmen were mighty, the crossbow arrows slanted to the sky, and a cloud of arrows rose into the air, like flying locusts pounced, shooting into the dense army, the shields and armor of the Jiannan army were difficult to resist the impact of a rain of arrows, under the heavy blow of the arrow array in Guanzhong, the attacking Jiannan army suffered heavy casualties, and the dead corpses pillowed in front of the ravine, and the blood flowed like a river.

Gao Xianzhi stood on a high platform to watch the battle, he saw that Guo Ziyi's army had sharp bows and crossbows, occupying the most favorable terrain, and the Jiannan army did not bring heavy weapons such as bed crossbows and trebuchets, it was difficult to break through the opponent's arrow array, and before the short battle, his army had killed and wounded nearly 8,000 people, and the cost of a forced attack was too great.

Gao Xianzhi sighed secretly, everyone is the Tang Army, just for the power struggle between the royal family, they killed each other, not in the hands of the Hu people, but died under the arrows of their own people, and the soldiers who died in the battle did not look blind!

"Collect the troops!"

Gao Xianzhi gritted his teeth and made up his mind, no matter how angry Li Longji was, he couldn't let the soldiers go to death anymore.

'When! While! While! The bell rang throughout the battlefield, and the Jiannan army went down like a low tide, retreating three miles away, leaving only corpses on the ground and soldiers struggling on the death line.

Guo Ziyi also sighed and ordered: "Go and carry all the wounded soldiers back, so that the students are healed." ”

He shook his head, this kind of cannibalism between his own people also filled his heart with disgust and discomfort, without a trace of the joy of victory.

Li Longji's face was pale, Gao Xianzhi actually withdrew his troops, which disappointed him too much, he felt that Gao Xianzhi did not do his best, he still had reservations, these generals all said it well, what to go to the soup and fire, they did not hesitate, but when they really wanted to go to the soup and the fire, they pushed three and four one by one, lest their army suffer too much.

Li Longji was extremely unhappy and said, "Go!" Call me for Gao Xianzhi. ”

After a while, Gao Xianzhi hurried over, he knelt down on one knee and said, "Minister Gao Xianzhi to see Your Majesty!" ”

"Why are you withdrawing?" Li Longji was merciless, and asked with a face.

"Back to Your Majesty, we are not well prepared and it is difficult to break through the opponent's arrow array, in just one day, we have killed and wounded 8,000 soldiers, but the other party has not suffered any damage, Your Majesty, it is difficult to win this battle."

"Is that why you withdrew your troops? Will there be no dead and wounded in the war? ”

Gao Xianzhi raised his voice and said: "Back to Your Majesty, of course there are dead and wounded in the war, but the needless casualties, the minister thinks it is not necessary. ”

Li Longji stared at him viciously, eager to slaughter this person who dared to contradict him, but he didn't dare to persecute Gao Xianzhi too much, so he could only endure it and said, "Then what do you say?" ”

"The minister thinks that he should not attack in such a hurry, and should wait for the opportunity."

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(To be continued)