The tragic purge of the Su family belonged to the fact that the paper could not contain the fire, and it quickly spread around the world.

Naturally, it reached Su Cheng's ears.

He was devastated with grief and drank heavily every day.

Yao Pu didn't know how to comfort him.

Not to mention, since surrendering, he has felt unusually stable.

When he heard that his mentor was killed, although he was also a little sad, it was far from being as sad as Su Cheng now.

Zhao Changqing also learned about it, but he didn't have time to comfort him.

It's just a general, it doesn't matter if you live or die.

After a few days of fighting, Zhao Changqing successfully captured the three counties of Chiqing, Luowu, and Dingdong, and merged with the Jia Xu Department who stayed in Yangtong County, and gathered all the armies in Hucheng County.

After some discussion, the Wei generals decided to divide their troops again into three routes and attack Fengchang County, Heng County, and Lincheng County respectively.

At the same time, Zhao Yunbu and Zhao Changlin have also begun to move closer to Zhao Changqing's side.

Because the war has been fought until now, it is getting closer and closer to the capital of the Tang Kingdom, and if you want to successfully attack the national capital, unless you recall the troops scattered all over the country, join forces in one place, and attack decisively, so that you can capture the Tang capital with the momentum of thunder.

And Tang Jun, on his side, is also actively preparing.

Tang Imperial Palace.

Morning.

Li Qing Canglong looked intently at the battle reports of the past few days on his chair, and the more he looked at it, the more his brows wrinkled.

Until the end, he threw the battle report on the ground and scolded bitterly: "The defenders in various places, with no less than a few hundred thousand troops, and more than 30 counties and towns united, have not been able to resist the enemy's footsteps for two months! In less than two months, the front has already suffered heavy losses.

At present, the main person responsible for dealing with Wei is the Nine Dragon Generals.

A few years ago, in the battle of Niutou Mountain, the Kowloon generals killed three in the battle and one in old age.

At present, the living ones are the Kowloon generals who are mainly Zuo Buqun and Wang Yunhe.

The other three Kowloon generals, Ye Xiaochen, Xiao Changhe, and Fang Xin, all looked at the two of them.

Hearing the emperor's anger, Zuo Buqun stood up from the crowd and said: "Your Majesty, in the past few days, we have discussed the military, and we can almost confirm that the army of the enemy emperor Zhao Changqing is going to march from the direction of Xianyang County, and we can raise troops to launch an ambush in Xianyang and fight with the enemy." ”

Li Qingcang can only count on the Kowloon General now.

After hearing Zuo Buqun's voice, his anxiousness gradually eased, and he said, "You mean to set up an ambush in Xianyang?

Zuo Buqun glanced at Wang Yunhe, and could only stubbornly say: "Your Majesty, if you repel the enemy army, you are not sure, but you can make the enemy army suffer heavy losses, at present, for the Wei State, the more troops are sacrificed, the more they will have no way to take down our Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Qingcang understood what he meant.

Such an approach is nothing more than the loss of the Wei army's strength, as long as they cannot replenish new troops, it will be difficult to get a final victory in the Tang State.

Of course, the rebel surrender army does not count.

Because the rebel and surrendered army, often because they are Tang people or other factors, they will not sincerely help the Wei army to attack Tang Tu.

That's to a great extent.

"Once Xianwu is lost, the capital will be in danger, are you sure that you can defend the capital?"

Li Qingcang is very concerned about this issue.

He knew that the real battlefield, where a large-scale conflict broke out, must be here in the capital.

The goal of the Wei army from beginning to end was to capture the capital first, which was a dispensable state for other states and counties.

Wang Yunhe interjected at the right time: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, we will definitely defend the capital, as long as it takes a long time, the enemy army will retreat." ”

Although he said so, he knew very well in his heart that it was estimated that the capital could not be defended, but the capital could be used as a place to consume the strength of the Wei army, which was nothing more than a capital, and after this place was captured by the enemy, he slowly retreated to the south, and consumed the enemy's strength while fighting, and over time, the enemy army would definitely defeat itself.

This is the most effective method at present.

Step by step, step by step, resistance.

Li Qingcang stroked his forehead and felt a headache: "How is the Qinwang Army in the south?"

Wang Yunhe hugged his fists and said: "Back to Your Majesty, you have already organized an army of 500,000 and are on the way to the capital, and after that, the important towns in the south should be able to prepare hundreds of thousands of troops." ”

Not counting the two million troops recruited by the Tang State before, even if the army recruited in the entire south this time is concerned, it has already made the Tang Dynasty almost unable to make ends meet.

Fighting a war is a very money-burning thing.

And now that Tang is worried about domestic and foreign troubles, it is obvious that there is no money left.

After retreating from the dynasty, after discussion among the generals, it was decided to let Ye Xiaochen and Fang Xin, lead an army of 150,000 and ambush in Xianyang County.

Of course, Wei Jun didn't know all this.

When Zhao Changqing broke through several counties one after another, the army finally attacked Xianyang County.

At the same time, Zhao Yun and Zhao Changlin were also responding.

But what Zhao Changqing didn't expect was that on the way to Xianyang, he actually encountered an ambush.

The officers and men of the two armies fought together, because the enemy had already calculated, which led to some unnecessary losses on Zhao Changqing's side.

But at this point, it's useless to talk about it.

Zhao Changqing prepared to withdraw his troops first.

But I didn't expect that as soon as I left on the front foot, the enemy army on the back foot also left, it was Ye Xiaochen's army.

Zhuge Liang said: "This Ye Xiaochen can be regarded as our old opponent, most of the troops under his command are crossbowmen, and they can only fight from afar, not close combat. ”

Zhao Changqing laughed and said: "It seems that the Tang army is really scared by our army, they obviously have an advantage, but after winning the insignificant battle, they withdrew in time and did not dare to go deeper. ”

Qi Jiguang hugged his fists and said: "What Your Majesty said is reasonable, just now according to the information learned by the scouts, Ye Xiaochen's troops have withdrawn to the northern city of Xianyang County. ”

"Beicheng?

Zhuge Liang frowned, feeling bad.

Zhao Changqing realized the problem, "Which army attacked Beicheng?"

Qi Jiguang thought for a while and said, "It seems to be the army of King Changlin." ”

Zhao Changqing pondered: "They will definitely ambush there, we are ambushed this time, because we feel that we are already invincible here in the Tang Army, and they are also using the arrogance of our army to deal with us." Immediately sent someone to tell Zhao Changlin and Zhao Yun that they should first set up camp a hundred miles outside Xianyang City, and not rashly attack the enemy. ”

Jia Xu hurriedly unfolded the map, marked a few places, and said: "Your Majesty, it is estimated that the matter is not so simple, the enemy's forces are very scattered, and there is a situation of fighting to the death with our army near Xianyang." ”

(End of chapter)