Chapter 5: Entering the Yique Pass

Frightened by the artillery fire, the enemy soldiers who had not yet recovered their senses, without the slightest resistance, scattered in all directions, throwing away their armor and scattering their ranks.

"What's going on?"

Qiu Shenyun, who was walking in front, found that there was a mess behind the army, and he roared angrily in a bad mood.

The herald Pegasus came to report that the rebels had been killed, and the soldiers were killed to the point that they lost their armor!

Qiu Shenyun was shocked, the 100,000 army was actually killed by thousands of rebels and fled in a hurry, what is this called, but when he encountered such a situation, he couldn't deal with it.

"What should I do?"

Qiu Shenxun hurriedly asked the deputy general beside him.

"Boss, let's run! The green mountains are here, and I am not afraid of no firewood!"

In the face of such a situation, the deputy generals were not recruited, and the soldiers and horses of these prefectures and counties had just been mobilized, and there was no unified training to cooperate with the operation, and it was difficult to convey military orders.

It's okay to fight a tailwind war, but once you encounter adversity, you will scatter and flee.

In this case, he could only run away quickly.

Qiu Shenyun immediately took his own soldiers and fled in the direction of the eastern capital.

The soldiers and horses of various states and counties saw Qiu Shenqi fleeing, some also ran, and some surrendered directly, anyway, where is the errand is not an errand.

In September of the fourth year of the arch, in the battle of the Yangtze River Valley, Li Jing won a complete victory, killing 30,000 enemies and surrendering 50,000 soldiers and horses.

This battle was won completely!

The surrender army is responsible for collecting the bodies of the dead soldiers and disposing of them in a unified manner.

This battle was won easily, because the local army recruited by the imperial court was negligent in training.

Unlike the government soldiers and peasants who are busy farming, training in their spare time, and maintaining strong combat effectiveness, the state and county armies are mainly responsible for maintaining law and order, acting as state and county minions, so it is okay to bully and bully the weak.

The most important point is that the main general Qiu Shenqi is not very good!

This is also a result that the imperial court did not expect, I thought that Qiu Shenqian led an army of 100,000 and had an advantage in numbers, and it was not easy to quell Li Jing's rebellion!

Who would have thought that Li Jing would have a cannon in his hand, the imperial army who had never seen a cannon, under a burst of artillery fire, the imperial army suffered many casualties, all of them were missing arms and legs, or were blown into minced meat, which greatly impacted the nerves of the imperial army, and they were frightened by the artillery fire and lost their fighting spirit.

This allowed Li Jing to win easily and effortlessly!

After learning that Li Jing seized the land of Jingxiang, achieved a huge victory, and defeated the 100,000 army of the imperial court, this made the Li Tang clan extremely excited, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Li Chong, the king of Langya, and Li Zhen, the king of Yue, responded to the army, Li Chong led 5,000 soldiers, crossed the river to attack Wushui County, Wushui County made desperate resistance, Li Chong was defeated and killed, and Li Zhen, the king of Yue, sent troops to occupy Shangcai.

Other clans also made more or less corresponding progress, and the kings of Li and Tang raised troops, causing shock to the government and the opposition.

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"Ding! Congratulations to the host for winning the first battle achievement, and a reward gift box. ”

Bite! Reward the military general, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, the head of the six founding kings, and Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan.

Bite! Reward 5,000 Shenji battalion (including 400 artillerymen, management of field heavy artillery and 100 sons, 3,600 musket infantry, 1,000 cavalry)

Bite! Bonus ammunition, 400 handles (artillery self-defense handcuffs), 180 combat vehicles.

Li Jing was overjoyed.

I didn't expect to have such a big surprise!

Xu Dake was the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, cautious, good at governing the army, and made immortal contributions to the establishment and consolidation of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang relied on him as the "Great Wall", and later generations also recognized him as the first hero of the founding of the Ming Dynasty and the first of the "six kings" of the founding of the country.

The Shenji Battalion was one of the three major battalions of the Beijing Army in the Ming Dynasty, and it was a gun unit equipped with muskets and artillery.

Li Jing asked Xu Da to rectify the 50,000 surrendered army, and named the 50,000 surrendered troops Jing'an Army, and after a short rest, he ordered Xu Da to lead 50,000 Jing'an troops as the vanguard army, followed by the Beiwei Army and the Shenji Battalion, and waved the army straight to Yique Pass.

At the same time of marching, by the way, these soldiers have not experienced the experience of blood and fire, they are not a qualified army, only after experiencing the tempering of blood and fire, can they experience a hundred battles of elite soldiers.

On the march, one man fled, and ten sat together, and all of them were put to death.

If there is dereliction of duty, cheating, slacking off, etc., the person will be given 50 lashes at the least, and beheaded at the worst!

Under Li Jing's iron and bloody wrist, no one dares to disobey the yang and the yin, no one dares to disobey the order, and the whole army does the order to prohibit it, so that you will never dare to retreat when you charge.

In order to establish prestige, Li Jing also knows how to give both grace and power, and if he behaves well in everything, he will improve the food and vegetables for the soldiers, and even reward money to seal the official, if he is brave in battle and unfortunately dies in battle, he can also get a generous pension to ensure that his family has no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime, so as to arouse everyone's enthusiasm.

The army marched all the way to the outside of Yique Pass, which is one of the eight passes of the eastern capital, an important pass to guard the safety of the eastern capital, and it is the only way for the eastern capital to go south.

The vanguard army led by Xu Da was the first to rush to Li Xiaoyi's Yique Pass, and when he saw the majestic Yique Pass, Xu Da did not rashly launch an attack, but ordered to camp on the spot.

Wait for Li Jing to lead the Beiwei Army and the Shenji Battalion to arrive, and then launch an attack on Yique Pass.

The guards of Yique did not dare to slack off, and immediately rushed 800 miles to report the situation here back to the Eastern Capital, asking for reinforcements.

The messenger quickly stepped up and soon brought the urgent military information to the eastern capital.

Wu Cao was furious when he saw this, and immediately summoned all the generals to discuss the important matter of countering the rebellion.

Wu Cao first took the official position and title of Qiu Shenxuan, who had lost the battle, and entered the heavenly prison to wait for his fate.

Zuo Weiwei general Ko Chongyu was appointed as the general manager of the Chinese army, Zhongshu Ling Cen Changqian was the general manager of the rear army, and Zhang Guangfu, the servant of the Zhongshu, was appointed as the commander of the army, leading 100,000 troops to crusade against Li Jing, cutting off the names of Li Jing, Li Chong, Li Zhen and others in the royal family roster, and changing their surnames to Yu.

But these have no effect on Li Jing and others, and they will satisfy Wu Cao's bad taste of changing people's surnames.

I can't kill you in terms of strength, but I can change your surname, it's okay to disgust you, and it can make her more or less evil!

In order to be just in case, Wu Cao also used Cheng Wuting and Wang Fangyi, who were falsely accused of rebellion and imprisoned in the prison, and had not yet come to kill them, and sent someone to recruit Hei Ya Changzhi, the ambassador of the Heyuan Army, to serve as General Zuo Wu Wei and concurrently serve as the inspector of Zuo Yulin Army.

In addition to guarding against Waiyi and Tubo in the north, the soldiers and horses of the six edicts in the south could not move, and recruited soldiers from various places to quell the rebellion.

Because Li Jing was under the banner of the emperor and raised troops on the side of the Qing monarch, which was justifiable, and not many soldiers responded to Wu Cao's call to enter King Qin, most of them were observing the changes in the situation and deciding which side to turn towards.

If the imperial army wins the counterinsurgency, they will not hesitate to fall to Wu Cao and join the queue of counterinsurgency, and if Li Jing wins, they will immediately fall to Li Jing.

Therefore, this battle of Yique Pass is particularly important and related to the future of the Tang Dynasty.