Chapter 63: The Web of Death
The soldiers surged like a tidal wave, constantly pounding the towering walls.
The soldiers defending the city have exhausted all means, and what gold juice has long been used up. The pits, stakes, and even the moat in front of the walls have been filled. The towering gates seemed to be about to fall.
"This is the art of war of the second son of Li Valve, who is known as 'helping the world and the people'?" The generals defending the city were in despair.
He didn't expect that a person who had no actual combat examples in military and political affairs, and who seemed to him to be just a vain name, would have such strength.
In just one day, he, the guard who held the dangerous Yang'an Pass, was about to be defeated.
"General, the rear order, abandon Yang'an and retreat to the Sword Pavilion." A herald flew to the news.
"Lack of erection and conspiracy!" The guards were furious.
"Even in the past, Jiang Boyo did not dare to give up Yang'an with the strategy of gathering troops and gathering valleys. Retreat to the Sword Pavilion? Did he think he could hold it? I thought that this King of Jingzhou who Lord Xiao Yu surrendered to had any ability, but it turned out that he was just a disciple who relied on witchcraft! ”
However, it is impossible for the defenders to disobey military orders after all.
After fighting back a wave of attacks by Li Shimin, he ordered the city to plant a flag and release wolf smoke to confuse the enemy, and then led the remnants of the army to leave.
"The enemy has withdrawn, and we are chasing." It's a pity that this simple suspicious tactic was quickly seen through by Li Shimin.
Xiongguan through the ages, Yang'an Pass, the gateway to Hanzhong, without the defenders, can't stop anything.
Finished.
Yang An Shou General sighed.
"General Bai, take my head and surrender, maybe there is still a way to live." He said to his lieutenant.
"General, don't be discouraged, our reinforcements have arrived!" The adjutant general's words exceeded the guard's expectations.
"Reinforcements?" He looked far away.
"Nonsense!" Then he flew into a rage.
"At this distance, we will never be able to retreat safely, and we will become an accomplice in the coalition army's assault on the main formation! What did they think, instead of guarding the Sword Pavilion, they ran so far away to send them to their deaths! ”
"General, with reinforcements, will we still be defeated?" The lieutenant was surprised.
"Hmph, with reinforcements, the soldiers have no fighting spirit in a battle, in order to attract their comrades-in-arms, the soldiers have no determination to fight to the death, plus the rout of the army to impact the main formation, the southern soldiers and horses do not know equestrianism, the plain war is by no means the enemy of the northern elite cavalry, and An can be undefeated?!" Guarding the way.
"Then general, are we still surrendering?" Adjutant said.
"Surrender a fart. Now that no one will accept your surrender, Li Shimin will never seize this opportunity to defeat us in one fell swoop. You might as well die with me in the way of the charge. "The guard said.
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The general didn't know that in the reinforcements that he thought were nonsense, the general who led the army over there had great confidence in this war.
"My lord, this kind of tactics is a big violation of the way of using soldiers. Could it be that after the advent of the era of thermal weapons, the situation of war is like this? Lu Miaozi was surprised.
"Master Lu doesn't want to think so. This kind of casual abandonment of natural danger and arranging a formation in the direction of rout and retreat when the enemy pursues is looking for death in any era. Chen Jing said, "However, when the difference in strength between the two sides is large to a certain extent, any tactic can be victorious." It's like a great master, no matter how stupid the tactics are, he can't lose to a monkey performing in the circus. ”
"It's a strange example. And just say the monkey is fine. Lu Miaozi said.
"Just for ease of understanding. If you talk about monkeys directly, someone will cite a lot of messy counterexamples. Chen Jing said.
Lu Miaozi was dumbfounded.
probably felt that there was no reason to fail, and there were more and more times when Chen Jing laughed.
Although Lu Miaozi couldn't think of how his side could fail, he still intuitively thought that this was not good.
He was going to give a advice. However......
"Master Lu prepares, they are coming." Chen Jing's voice suddenly regained its composure and coldness.
This tone ...... Was it just a delusion? Lu Miaozi shook her head.
But he wasn't going to ask that. War is approaching, even if the opponent's strength is not high, we must go all out to prevent any accidents from happening.
It's just that...... Could there really be any surprises?
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Li Shimin won Yang'an Pass in one fell swoop, but there was no joy on his face.
"Second brother, why are you unhappy?" Li Jiancheng was puzzled. This is Yang'an Pass. After taking it, the portal of Hanzhong collapsed. Even the Sword Pavilion where the enemy retreated was a famous city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, but I have never heard of anyone who could defend Hanzhong with the Sword Pavilion in one place. What is the king of Jingzhou, sure enough, he can only go back to Jingzhou Water Town.
"Big brother, you don't know...... Li Shimin sighed, "The defenders of Yang'an Pass are just sergeants under Uncle Xiao Yu's uncle. The power of the king of Jingzhou himself did not appear at all. ”
"So what?" Li Jiancheng shook his head, "If you don't appear, it means that the king of Jingzhou made a mistake." The door of Hanzhong has been opened, can the king of Jingzhou still hold Hanzhong without losing Yang'an Pass? No one has ever been able to do this. ”
Listening to Li Jiancheng's words, Li Shimin knew that his eldest brother was eager to win, and he couldn't listen to bad analysis. This made Li Shimin feel a little emotional.
Big brother, you're so eager to win. But this time, I'm afraid that the king of Jingzhou may not be able to just hold it...... only used soldiers to guard Yang'an Pass, which shows that he doesn't care about Yang'an Pass, the gateway to Hanzhong. There can only be one reason why I don't care about such a Xiongguan in the world, and the king of Jingzhou can seize this kind of Xiongguan at any time. Then, the weapon of the King of Jingzhou seems to be completely usable.
It's terrible. If Li Shimin didn't know that Chen Jing's cannon was more suitable to hit the city, and it didn't hurt much to use it to hit the soldiers, he would have been ready to surrender directly.
At the very least, surrendering may still be able to preserve the strength for the day. There's nothing left for now.
Hey, what's that?
Li Shimin suddenly saw several strange bumps on the ground.
"Stop!" Li Shimin subconsciously gave an order.
It's a pity that he is not the commander-in-chief of this army at all now. In this army, only half of the soldiers of Li Zhu were men, and the rest were the troops of the Turks and Xue Ju. They won't listen to Li Shimin. Moreover, even if it is Li Valve's army, Li Shimin's command is not as good as Li Jiancheng.
He only barely managed to stop a few people from his Tiance Mansion.
This also attracted Li Jiancheng's rebuke.
"Shimin, the soldiers are fast, what's the matter with you?"
"Big brother, there is something wrong with those bumps, we should investigate them." Li Shimin said.
"So what's wrong with a few bumps. Our army of 300,000 can be wiped out no matter what ambush there is! Li Jiancheng said.
"Order, the whole army charges, and everything is leveled!" He roared.
"Big brother!" Li Shimin wanted to stop it, but he found that he couldn't stop it after all.
That's the problem with multiple commanders. Even though they have the same goal, their judgment is ultimately different at such a critical time. Being in power is not necessarily right.
Then, Li Jiancheng couldn't believe his eyes.
"What's that?!" He stared blankly at the tongues of fire that were spitting out on the strange bulges.
His army was constantly penetrated by something violent, and hordes of people were dying.
It turns out that this is what the people of the world should be careful of?
But if he knew that there was such a thing, why did he organize this coalition this time. Didn't he know that under the power of such a thing, no army could do anything?
With this question, Li Jiancheng fell into eternal darkness.
As a commander, he rushed to the front, even though his martial arts allowed him to dodge, but he couldn't dodge a few times after all.
Under this web of death, even the Grand Master could not survive.