In the first battle of Beisha City, taking advantage of the chaos of the rebels themselves, the 6,000 Tang Army carried out a large-scale penetration and infiltration at night, and with the help of the wind that was not too strong at night, the company camp was burned.

In less than half an hour, almost all of the rebel camps that stretched for more than a dozen miles were set on fire, and the unprecedentedly large camp was completely plunged into chaos.

In the face of such a situation, the fifth round of the former Pinglu Zhenjun, who was responsible for the integration of hundreds of thousands of horses, was also confused, but at this critical moment, the fifth round, which was originally the Tang Army general's extremely high military quality and judgment ability, played a key role.

In the face of the unknown enemy, the chaotic battle situation and the burning of the company camp, the fifth round first strictly ordered all troops to hold the camp on the spot, and it was strictly forbidden to move around at will.

At the same time, the fifth round sent out the only more than 10,000 elites in his hands to supervise the execution of the order, and at the same time, he was responsible for extinguishing the fire and clearing the infiltrated Tang army.

Although this series of measures cannot recover the existing losses, it makes it difficult for the team that has completed the infiltration in the early stage to fish in troubled waters.

In this regard, Guo Rong and Li Yu accepted it when they saw it, and before dawn, they withdrew to the beach, lured the other party to attack to no avail, and then led the fleet back.

As the sky brightened, coupled with the withdrawal of the Tang army, the rebels gradually freed themselves from the chaos, and looking at the losses counted one after another, the fifth round was pale.

Thousands of people died in the sneak attacks that followed the infiltration, more than 30,000 died in the chaos and stampede caused by the fires, and countless more were injured.

Compared with these losses in personnel, the loss of materials made the fifth round even more unacceptable, and more than half of the grain and grass that Li Shidao had painstakingly raised for the rebels were burned.

The fifth round was very clear that the cause of this series of mutations was the fleet that the other party had just arrived, but the fifth round had no way to deal with these giant ships roaming the sea.

I didn't care about the loss of personnel in the fifth round, but the loss of grain and grass hurt my muscles and bones, and after thinking twice, I had no better way to prevent the other party from sneaking attack, and the fifth round decisively issued the order to withdraw the troops.

Immediately after that, the remaining army of more than 200,000 people retreated for a hundred miles in five days, pulling from Shabei City to Jili Prefecture before completely stopping.

For Guo Rong and Li Yu, the fifth round of withdrawal was unexpected, but it was reasonable, after all, they couldn't fight and couldn't prevent it, and retreat could only become the last choice.

It's just that the speed of this retreat did exceed Guo Rong's expectations, originally Guo Rong and Li Yu also tried to carry out a sneak attack, but after seeing the fifth round of elite formation, the two decisively gave up the idea of sneak attack.

Within two days, there were several rounds of fighting, and the fifth round not only did not take any advantage, but suffered heavy losses, but Guo Rong did not dare to despise this former Pinglu town general in the slightest.

In a sense, there was nothing wrong with the order of the fifth round, and the troops and horses in the hands of the fifth round were really bad.

That is, if you encounter a fifth round with a steady style, but if you are replaced by a general who is greedy for merit or is not good at dealing with the chaotic situation, all this is probably a situation of direct collapse.

To be honest, once, Guo Rong didn't know that there was a person called the fifth wheel in this world, which shows what kind of foundation Zhenguan and Kaiyuan have accumulated for the Tang Dynasty.

The rebel army under the command of the fifth round retreated in great strides, and the soldiers and horses under the command of Guo Rong and Li Yu did not pursue them in any way.

Although there was no communication, let alone negotiation, the two sides tacitly set aside an area of nearly 100 miles between Beisha City and Jili Prefecture, which became a de facto buffer zone.

Although the battle between the two sides has come to an end for the time being, both Guo Rong and Li Yu know in the fifth round that this is just a compromise under the inability of both sides to eliminate their opponents.

Both sides need to use this period of time to rebuild their strength.

In the face of consecutive defeats, the fifth round is a painful experience.

Obviously, he had an absolute advantage in numbers, but he was embarrassed on the battlefield, and the complicated composition, chaotic system, low combat effectiveness and will to fight made the fifth round unbearable.

In the fifth round, which suffered a big loss, he had already made up his mind to select tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the mixed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, according to the Tang Dynasty soldiers

Standard training.

At the same time, Guo Rong's attack from the sea also made the fifth round feel a huge threat from the sea.

The fifth round is not good at naval warfare, but he is not a fool, and the soldiers on land are really powerless against threats from the sea.

The fifth round came to the conclusion that the only one who could contain the sailor could also be the sailor.

Once, his own boss also had the most powerful sailor in the entire Datang range, but the former powerful Jiaodong sailor has disappeared.

Although Li Shidao relied on the sea ship skills stolen from Jimo and relied on the island country to start building a sailor again, everyone knew that a ship could not be made in a day, and it was impossible for a sailor to establish it in a short period of time, at least in a short period of time, he did not have the strength to confront the imperial court.

So, in the face of the threat from the sea, the fifth round can only rely on itself.

After pondering that there was no way to threaten the other party, the fifth round chose the stupidest, but most effective.

With the return of the army and the selection of the soldiers and horses for training, the fifth round ordered to set up corresponding beacon forts at certain distances in the coastal area to mirror the border walls of the Great Wall.

On the other hand, with the withdrawal of the other party's troops, the war came to an end, and Guo Rong did not continue to stay in Beisha City, but led part of the fleet back to Jiaodong.

After all, Guo Rong came to Liaodong this time to take advantage of the time for the replenishment and repair of troops and horses from all walks of life after the decisive battle of Bianzhou.

Of course, before leaving, Guo Rong and Li Yu had already dealt with it properly.

Although they won a great victory in the frontal battlefield and the flank sneak attack, Li Yu and Guo Rong were well aware of the luck of this victory.

The complexity of the composition of the opposing army, and the chaos of the structure are breathtaking, but the fifth round himself is definitely an excellent general.

With the performance of not hesitating to order the initiative to retreat in the fifth round, the two did not believe that there was no back-up move in the fifth round.

It may be a rectification of military discipline, a unified deployment, a reorganization of the army, and even the formation of a new army......

No matter which method is used, the opponent's combat effectiveness can be greatly mentioned, and with the number of troops under the command of the fifth round, the battle will be even more brutal when they meet next time.

At that time, it would be a pipe dream to be able to fight against the fifth round with 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers.

Therefore, after Guo Rong left, the two sailors of "Beiyang" and "Jimo" will go all out to transport materials, grain, grass and people from Jiaodong day and night.

According to Guo Rong and Li Yu's plan, taking advantage of the severe cold of winter and not taking advantage of the time of fierce fighting, at least 100,000 people were transported to the Liaodong Peninsula, so that the number of Tang people on the Liaodong Peninsula exceeded 150,000, and the number of soldiers reached at least 50,000.

As a complementary measure to defend against the fifth round of the offensive, Guo Rong and Li Yu had decided to use this period of unfavorable fighting to rebuild the defense system of the Liaodong Peninsula.

First of all, with Li Yu's soldiers and horses as the core, the scout detachments of the original Hebei Army, Liaodong Army, and Yu Qian were unified and reorganized into Jinzhouwei.

Set up a camp in Montenegro, northeast of Beisha City, and build a new city in the southeast of Beisha City, which is slightly smaller than Beisha City and extends to the sea.

The three talent formations formed by the two cities of Heishanzhai and Beisha and Jinzhou in the north are the horns of each other, constituting the main defense system of Jinzhouwei.

At the same time, Qingnipu in the south of Jinzhou Weizhi was expanded, and Dengzhou Port and Weihaiwei across the sea were used as one of the home ports of the "Beiyang" sailors.

In the future, Qingnipu, Dengzhou Port, Weihaiwei, Jinzhouwei, plus the "Beiyang" naval division, will form the core of the entire Liaodong-Jiaodong coastal defense system in northern Datang.

On the fifth day of the fifth round of withdrawal, the fourth day after Guo Rong left Beisha City, a strong northwest wind struck, and the temperature that had already dropped below freezing was further reduced, and the coldest winter in the land of Liaodong completely arrived.

From the spring of the fourth year of Yuanhe, the war in Liaodong came to a temporary end.

It's just that Guo Rong can't take care of the temperature in Liaodong, because after returning from Beisha City, Guo Rong opened again

Started a wild run all the way.

The direction of Liaodong is very important, but the Central Plains is the core area that can really determine the fate of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhuzhai and Daicun, the two victories were overwhelming, which almost set the future of the entire Shandong and even the entire Hebei.

The teacher once endowed the poet with a cloud, and it is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to sell the name of the overlord.

However, this time, from Emperor Li Chun to Guo Rong and a series of generals who actually commanded the battle, down to the soldiers and horses from all walks of life who participated in the bloody battle, everyone coincidentally chose to rest after the decisive battle, rather than immediately waving their troops north.

The attrition of the soldiers needs to be replenished, the equipment of the soldiers needs to be rested, the soldiers and horses of the various departments need to be replenished and reorganized, and the news of the great victory of the imperial court in the decisive battle needs to be fermented with all their hearts......

For generals and soldiers, rest and recuperation are necessary, but Li Chun's surprise and lack of any urging made Guo Rong feel more or less surprised.

In fact, Li Chun not only did not urge Guo Rong to go north, but even did not object to Guo Rong taking advantage of the opportunity of the army to rest and recuperate in Liaodong, but only asked Guo Rong not to delay too long in Liaodong and not to delay the war against Hebei on the Central Plains.

For the emperor to be so empathetic, Guo Rong and other generals were even more happy to see it.

It was precisely with Li Chun's approval that Guo Rong's secret trip to Liaodong was born, and the Donghai Road agreed upon by Guo Rong and Li Yu......

After all, Guo Rong did not return the teachings of the Emperor to the Emperor.

In fact, Guo Rong has been thinking about the relationship between himself and Li Chun for a long time, and it is Guo Rong's deliberate approach to put forward the concept of ministers and courtiers, and the introduction of the representative system and the cabinet system.

Although he has a good relationship with Li Chun now, although he and Li Chun cooperate very tacitly, and although Li Chun attaches great importance to his views and opinions, Li Chun is the emperor after all, and there is no harm in maintaining the existing good relationship.

If you don't tell you, it is taboo to make friends with border towns, although Li Chun may not do anything now, but Guo Rong still doesn't dare to do it rashly with such a big hidden danger.

Leaving in a hurry, returning in a hurry, the day after Guo Rong returned to Bianzhou, a whole group of messengers from Chang'an also arrived in Bianzhou.

Li Chun's personal letters, Li Chun's public edict, the war report of the Ministry of War on the war in the northwest, the approval of the Zhongshu Province and the Ministry of War on the reorganization of the armies in the Central Plains, and the follow-up orders drawn up by the Ministry of War in accordance with the Xiaochao Association......

A large number of letters, formal and unofficial, were crammed into Guo Rong's hands, and the arrival of this large pile of documents also answered many of Guo Rong's questions.

The war report from the military department recorded in detail the battle situation in Guanzhong, Longnan, and Longyou areas for more than a month; during this time, the war in the northwest can only be described as tragic, and although its scale was not as good as the two decisive battles in Bianzhou, the degree of tragedy was even more than that.

It is also the main reason why the madness of the Tubo people made Li Chun and the important ministers of the central government not urge Guo Rong to go north, if the war situation in the west is really unfavorable, then the army under Guo Rong that is ready to go north to recover Hebei will become the last hope of Chang'an.

In the western direction of Longxi, before the first heavy snow fell in Longxi, the Tubo people launched a crazy attack on Guyuan, Yuanzhou, and Xiaoguan for nearly ten days.

However, under the strict defense of the forbidden army and the Shuofang army, the attack of the Tubo people did not succeed in the end, and Xiaoguan and the entire Longshan defense line were as stable as Mount Tai.

From the very beginning, Guo Rong predicted the main direction of attack of the Tubo people in the Longnan direction, and all the strategies of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, resisting step by step, and exchanging space for time were formulated before the war, and most of the Tang people in the area had been evacuated.

In the nearly three-month battle and retreat, except for a few isolated cities such as Qinzhou, Longcheng, and Shangbang, the four states of Longnan have all fallen into the hands of the Tubo people.

At the same time, the main force of the Tubo army in the middle of the road began to shake the pass with a strong bow under the only obstacle between Longnan and Guanzhong.

The defenders of the Great Earthquake Pass were supported by Pei Zhi, who had retreated into the Great Earthquake Pass after the Battle of Chencangdao, and the thousands of Yulin troops led by Pei Zhi.

Compared with Longnan and Longxi, Chencang was the place where the war was most intense.

In the past, at the north end of Chencang Road, Pei Zhi used the Emperor Taishang and ordnance, and Pei Zhi was good

taught Nima Bazar and Liu Pi a lesson.

I don't know if it was the impact of the battle of Chencang Dao, but in the process of attacking Chencang, Nima Bazar and Liu Pi did not rush to attack the city.

After arriving at Chencang, he set up a posture after a simple temptation, but he did not attack at the first time, but mobilized all his forces to frantically cut down wood and materials, and then built various siege equipment on the spot, while waiting for the arrival of follow-up soldiers and horses.

Since nearly half of the coalition forces formed this time were the Jiannan Army, which once belonged to the Tang Army, this made this team's ability to build siege equipment far beyond the ordinary Tubo people.

When the number of anti-Tang coalition troops arriving in Chencang reached 100,000, the anti-Tang coalition army, under the joint command of Nima Bazar and Liu Pi, dispatched the whole army and began to uproot the camp set up by the Yulin Army in the west and south of Chencang City by using the siege equipment that had been built.

After spending nearly ten days and uprooting all the outlying camps, the anti-Tang coalition continued to build siege equipment while officially attacking Chencang City.

And Chen Cangcheng also ushered in the bloodiest and most tragic days.