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Volume 3 Taihang Mountain Chapter 849 Duel between Tang and Zhao

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    Jingyang is the name of the central belly.  Li Chongjiu marched north from the east of Chang'an.  The purpose is obvious, which is to go through the surrounding areas of Chang'an, pull out several cities near Chang'an, annihilate the effective forces of the Tang army, and then return to attack Chang'an.

    According to Li Chongjiu, attacking Chang'an is like cutting down trees. First remove the branches and leaves, then cut down the trunks, step by step.

    ¡°Otherwise, the situation is not very clear now, and the Zhao army rushes to attack Chang¡¯an. It won¡¯t take a few days for Li Shimin¡¯s main force, the Tang army, to rush back to Chang¡¯an from Fufeng.  Li Chongjiu faced the danger of approaching the city with troops and being attacked from both sides. Chang'an could not be captured by then, and it would not be easy to retreat from the siege. That would be called passive.

    After Li Chongjiu led his army to march north, the defenders in Chang'an City faced Zhao's army withdrawing under their noses and did not dare to send troops to pursue it without permission.  Wugu Nai and Xue Wanjun won a great victory in one battle, defeating many with less, and defeated the few Tang Army field legions in Chang'an City.

    The generals of the Tang army in the city had lost the courage to go out to fight, so Fang Xuanling, who was in charge of Chang'an, saw the Zhao army advancing north and only dared to send more than a hundred cavalry to follow the Zhao army more than ten miles away from the Zhao army's rearguard.  At the same time, Fang Xuanling called for help from the main force of the 100,000 Tang army led by Li Shimin who was coming from Fufeng.

    Fang Xuanling wrote in the letter that the Zhao thieves wanted to pass through Jingyang and seize the granary in the north of Chang'an. Even if this place cannot be defended, it cannot be used by the enemy. Your Majesty must not give up Jingyang.

    Now near Jingyang, Li Chongjiu's main army is arriving in a steady stream.

    Jingyang City is famous for the Jingshui River flowing through it. At that time, the Korean craftsman Zheng Guo diverted the two tributaries of the Wei River, the Jingshui River and the North Luoshui River, into the Zhengguo Canal he built.  With 40,000 hectares of irrigated land, it became the first water conservancy project in Guanzhong.

    After Li Chongjiu personally led the army to leave Chang'an.  Go north from the Wei River and arrive at the Jing River.  Along the way, the Wei River is clear.  The Jingshui is turbid, and when the two rivers meet, one is turbid and the other is clear. This is also the origin of the allusion that Jingwei is distinct.  But in fact, because of the existence of the Zhengguo Canal, the area around Jingshui is the main grain field irrigation area in Chang'an. There is a folk proverb in Chang'an that for a stone of Jingshui, there are several buckets of mud, and both irrigation and manure are included.  I will grow millet.  Food, clothing, capital, and mouths of hundreds of millions.

    Li Chongjiu led his army to transfer to Jingyang, also for the purpose of plundering, to seize the granary north of Chang'an, and to supply food and fodder for the Tang army on the front line.

    Xue Wanche, the general who was ordered to attack Jingyang, also knew that if you eat an enemy for one minute, you should be worth twenty.  So he knew the importance of this battle of Jingyang to the subsequent battle of Chang'an.

    At the foot of Jingyang City, Xue Wanche's 30,000 troops had already completely surrounded the city.  Xue Wanche also knew that Li Shimin was leading the army.  Came day and night to reinforce Jingyang City.  Therefore, facing Jingyang City, he had to capture it before Li Shimin's reinforcements arrived.

    The guard of Jingyang City is Wang Renshi, the general of the Tang Army. The circumference of Jingyang City in front of us is three miles and twenty steps.  The city wall is seven feet wide and three feet high.

    After arriving at the city, Xue Wanche ordered all the people and horses in the tent.  Then he ordered the army sergeants to put out baskets of gold.  Place on the ground.  The soldiers had never seen so much gold before, and they all looked straight at it.

    Xue Wanche first clasped his fists at the soldiers and said, "Brothers, Li Shimin said he defeated our 200,000-strong army on the west route. He was bragging. The first one doesn't believe it. If it's true, I'll cut off his head and give it to him."

    When Xue Wanche said this, all the soldiers laughed.  The army also didn't believe it. Wang Junkuo was famous in Mobei. Li Shimin defeated him in a battle. The army sergeants also thought that Li Shimin was bragging.

    Xue Wanche paused and said: "Here are a thousand taels of gold. They were obtained by a certain man through many years of military exploits. They were also given by your majesty. Some of them were accumulated from his daily salary. They are all here now. Divide them among the brothers."

    "General, keep this gold, and we will capture the city for you tomorrow." Everyone said one after another.

    "Hmph, why are you being polite to me? Take it. Capture Jingyang City. Your Majesty will reward you. I will also use money to reward you. In the battle tomorrow, we can only succeed and not fail!"

    Hearing what Xue Wanche said, all the soldiers looked excited.

    Before the Battle of Jingyang, Xue Wanche spent all his wealth to motivate the troops.

    The next day, Xue Wanche led an army of 30,000 men and attacked Jingyang City from the north and south.

    Wang Renshi, the general of the Tang army who was defending the city, had never seen such a fierce offensive. The charge of the Zhao army under the city was like a huge wave following one after another, making the defenders unable to breathe at all.

    The soldiers of Zhao Army who were attacking the city were not afraid of death. They fought with the Tang army on every city top.

    The fierce fighting lasted from sunrise to noon, and from noon to night.

    At night, Zhao Jun¡¯s offensive was still not exhausted. Xue Wanche ordered his people to light up the city with lights and continue the attack.  The Tang army in the city was also very tenacious. Before they defended the city, Li Shimin sent a messenger to break into the city before the Zhao army surrounded them, telling the defenders that they must defend the city no matter what.  Therefore, the defenders stood firm and refused to retreat.

      Seeing that the Tang army resisted tenaciously and could not be captured for a while, Xue Wanche also changed his tactics and divided his troops into five groups. Every two hours, one group of troops was sent to attack, while the other four groups rested. Ten hours later, five groups of troops and horses were sent to attack.  They all went out to attack the four gates.  The Tang army on the city wall fought fiercely for two days and one night. They were almost blind and exhausted.

    Xue Wanche was supervising the battle under the city with his sword in hand. At this time, intelligence came that Li Shimin had led reinforcements to a place less than fifty miles away from Jingyang.

    Li Chongjiu ordered Zhang Xuansu to ride to Xue Wanche's army to convey the order. He would not interfere in the siege. Xue Wanche decided whether the army should continue to attack the city or retreat.

    Xue Wanche couldn't bear it any longer, so he personally held a knife and led more than a hundred guards to attack the city!

    Even General Xue Wanche was dispatched, and the morale of the armed guards who attacked the city was high. The fierce battle continued until midnight, when black smoke and fire suddenly ignited in the city.  It turned out that Wang Renshi, the general of the Tang army, knew that the city could not be defended, so he immediately ordered his soldiers to pour oil and burn the army rations.

    After a while, the south of the city was breached.

    Xue Wanche's general Qin Qiong personally led three hundred cavalry to seize the road into the city and go to the granary to seize grain.

    Qin Qiong fought with Wang Renshi, a general of the Tang Dynasty. He personally beheaded the opponent under his horse, led his troops to extinguish the fire and rescued the army's food.  Seventy-eight percent of the food stored in the city was taken back.  Sporadic fierce battles in the city continued until dawn. All three thousand Tang troops and five thousand civilians in Jingyang City were annihilated by the Zhao army.

    In the early morning, the cavalry from the west arrived all the way, led by the general Zhang Shigui, the commander-in-chief of the Tang Army's cavalry, and three hundred cavalry under his command.

    Zhang Shigui reined up his horse by the Jing River and watched the black smoke from Jingyang City rising into the sky. He knew that he was one step too late and Jingyang City was still captured by the Zhao army.  Zhang Shigui looked at it for a long time, speechless, and sighed sadly.

    Then, with smoke and dust billowing behind them, General Qu Tutong and General Changsun Wuji arrived with 10,000 elite troops of the Tang Army. Seeing that Jingyang City was breached, they immediately led their troops to retreat a few miles to camp.

    One day later, Li Shimin led the main force of the Tang army back from Hexi and arrived at Liquan County to the west of Jingyang to station.

    Suddenly, more than 200,000 troops from the Tang and Zhao armies gathered on both sides of the Jingshui River and the Weishui River, and a war was about to break out.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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