Chapter 126 The Attack of the Back Army

Hearing the news of Shan Xiongxin's suicide, Wang Renze was silent in the big tent of the Chinese army. The courage of a single pass and a single Xiongxin is obvious to all. None of the people present were unconvinced by Shan Xiongxin. Wang Ren sat on the handsome chair and was speechless for a long time, as if he was like a statue. Wang Ren smiled bitterly in his heart.

If Shan Xiongxin doesn't die, he can still put the responsibility for the defeat on Shan Xiongxin's head, and by the way, he will shirk his responsibility cleanly, but now it's good, Shan Xiongxin is a hundred dead, no matter how shameless he is, it is impossible to put the responsibility for the defeat on Shan Xiongxin's head.

However, the loss of more than 15,000 soldiers and horses must be borne by someone. Even though Wang Shichong can open up the net, it is still a very difficult problem for him to defend Hangu Pass.

When the generals hadn't seen Chen Ying, they thought that Chen Ying was just a waste of fame and luck. After the battle on the northern plateau of Hangu Road, they all saw Chen Ying's methods. Especially the kind of iron man who can't be slashed with a knife and can't be shot by an arrow, which makes them feel extremely depressed and desperate.

The enemy's armor was too heavy and too strong to deal an effective blow to them no matter what method was used, but they were good, and the long knife in their hands would die if they touched it, and even after two days, they still trembled unconsciously in their hearts when they recalled the horrific scene at the beginning.

The cavalry of the Tang army formed a dense cavalry wall, crushing them again and again, directly rushing their formation to pieces, until the whole army collapsed, making them feel a long-lost sense of powerlessness in their hearts. From Wang Renze onwards, all the generals were breathing heavily, both depressed by this hopeless battle and worried about their unknown fate.

At this moment, Cui Binyou plucked up his courage and said: "Ming Gong, the terrain on the southern plateau is flat, and now that the Tang army has won a new victory, if we attack us with the power of victory, we have to defend against it!" ”

Wang Ren looked weird, and looked at Cui Binyou and the generals playfully: "What do you mean?" ”

Cui Binyou said: "Now that the Tang army is winning the field battle, they will definitely attack Hangu Pass all the way along the North Plateau, and when the time comes, they will lead the war to the city of Hangu Pass, which will be the most passive situation." The best defense is actually offense. ”

"Take the initiative? What to attack? How to attack? Where to attack? Wang Renze's voice was full of exhaustion and helplessness: "There is no point in ambushing the Tang army, withdraw the troops to Hangu Pass, let's rely on Hangu Pass and fight with the Tang army." ”

Originally, Wang Ren wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Tang army did not know that the news of their troops had been leaked, and made full use of the favorable terrain of Hangu Pass to ambush the Tang army, so that the Tang army would suffer a big loss. Wang Renze's move, if he dealt with other Tang army soldiers, might have succeeded.

However, he happened to meet Chen Ying, a freak. From beginning to end, Chen Ying did not think of arriving directly from Hangu Road to Hangu Pass, but along the high plateaus on both sides of Hangu Road, all the way to Hangu Pass. If it was in the past, the southern plateau and the thick mulberry plateau were covered with dense wild mulberry trees or bushes, and there was no road to the top of the plateau, and Chen Ying wanted to march from the top of the plateau, it would be impossible to do it. However, with the fact that all the mulberry trees on the South Plateau and the Dense Mulberry Plateau were cut down by the people of Guanzhong, the entire top of the Plateau became bare, which also made Wang Renze's ambush plan completely fail.

The field battle with real swords and guns was in the hands of the Tang Army. Now Wang Renze's heavy tomahawk battalion has been completely wiped out, the strength has been greatly reduced, and the equipment has completely fallen behind the Tang army, even if the supply is not as convenient as the Tang army. They needed to be transported from Hangu Pass to a plateau of more than 100 miles, while the Tang army only needed to walk thirty or forty miles from Tong to Tong, the supply distance was shortened, and the loss was light, so it was an inevitable choice to withdraw to Hangu Pass.

"We can't be passive on the defensive, we have to take the initiative to attack!" Cui Binyou made a gesture on the map: "While the Yellow River is freezing, we can bypass Tongguan along the river and attack Guanzhong directly." ”

Wang Ren smiled bitterly and said, "How many troops can we deploy to attack Guanzhong?" If the number of people is small, it is undoubtedly sent to death, and if the number of people is large, in case it is surrounded by the Tang army on all sides. ”

Choi Binwoo was speechless for a while.

At this moment, a messenger hurriedly came, and the messenger handed Wang Renze a secret letter with a red seal.

Wang Ren did not answer this secret letter, but said directly: "General Ben won't read it, let's say, tell General Ben, what's the bad news?" ”

The messenger said: "Li Shimin, the king of Qin of the Tang State, has sent troops, Li Shimin, the king of Qin of the Tang State, Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and Qu Tutong, the Shangshu of the military department, led the left and right Wuhou Guards, the left and right Xiao cavalry guards, the left and right leading guards, and a total of 100,000 elite soldiers from the left and right guards, a total of eight guards, out of Chang'an, all the way to the east!" ”

Wang Ren was stunned for a moment, then took the secret letter, opened the secret letter inside, and looked carefully word by word. After a long time, Wang Ren sighed and said leisurely: "It seems that the Central Plains is also going to find earth-shaking changes. ”

In fact, as Wang Shichong said, Li Tang originally planned to solve Wang Shichong after spring ploughing, so as to avenge Wang Shichong's attack on Li Tang Yinzhou. However, under the influence of Chen Ying, an otherworldly butterfly, the Li Tang court had a completely different concept of Wang Shichong's war.

In Li Yuan's opinion, the generals under Wang Shichong's command are not more than Erer.

Chen Ying wrote clearly in the war report that Chen Ying encountered Wang Renze's ambush on the day he sent out the army, relying on the soldiers of the three armies, fighting desperately, repelling Wang Renze, and beheading his general Guo Qing, capturing his champion general Shan Xiongxin, Xiao Caidu Lieutenant Gao Feiyang, Zhang Anshi and other more than 8,000 people.

This is not a result achieved in a normal field situation, but in a mid-ambush situation. The 100,000 army was ambushed by thousands of soldiers, and the whole army was defeated There are many examples, Chen Ying actually used more than 23,000 horses, under the ambush of more than 30,000 elite soldiers of Wang Renze, not only killed the enemy army, but also achieved a big victory, so there is only one result, the so-called elite soldiers of the Zheng army are a group of scum who are not on the stage.

Since Wang Shichong is so weak, there is nothing to be polite about. If it goes well, Wang Shichong can be solved within two months, and the territory of one hundred and seven counties in the twelve counties of the Central Plains under Wang Shichong's rule and nearly one million people can be obtained, and the Tang Dynasty will not delay the spring ploughing of Wude for three years.

If the war goes well, get the land of the Central Plains, and go south along the Han River, you can fight Xiao Milling with Li Xiaogong and Li Jing of Bashu, and obtain the rich and rich Hanxiang Plain.

On the third day of the first month of the third year of Wude, before the hundred civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty had opened their offices, Li Shimin took his Xuanjia cavalry, which had been retrained by Zhai Changsun's strategy, to lead an army of 100,000 troops to the direction of Tongguan. Li Shimin believed that his Xuanjia cavalry would not be weaker than Chen Ying's Dingyuan cavalry, and would definitely become the king of cavalry in the world.

Left and right Wuhou guards, left and right Xiao cavalry guards, left and right leading army guards, left and right guards eight guards eighty-seven Zhichong Mansion soldiers, the army stretches for more than ten miles, the flag covers the sky and the sun, gongs and drums are noisy. Li Shimin is very confident, he is not afraid that Wang Shichong will learn the news in advance, his intention is to tell Wang Shichong: Ye Ye is coming to beat you, you wash your neck and wait.

Got the news that Li Shimin's 100,000 army had left Tongguan to kill Xiangguanzhong, Wang Ren was unwilling to stay for a moment, facing Chen Ying, he still had the strength to parry, but the 100,000 elite soldiers under Li Shimin's command, he had no chance at all. Wang Ren ordered a retreat, however, he took it for granted.

The road to retreat is not destined to be smooth sailing.

Snow-covered ice, the army did not march fast. Otherwise, if you go about 40 miles, the whole army will be miserable. Finally, Wang Renze's ministry came to the Taichu Palace, it is said that this is where Lao Tzu rode a bull into Hangu Pass, wrote a book here, and wrote a huge work of the Tao Te Ching.

Taichu Palace covers an area of about ten acres, and is a palace-style building complex. On the edge of the temple ridge and the eaves of the gable, there are rare birds and beasts such as unicorns, lions, tigers, chickens, dogs, etc., and they have both gods and shapes. The flying beams on the top of the hall are vertical and horizontal, the rafters are uneven, although the roof truss is complex, but it is a rule of its own, the temple is wide, there is no pillar in it.

Wang Ren unceremoniously occupied this Taoist temple, and placed the tent in the Taichu Palace, while his soldiers were stationed near the Taichu Palace.

The third watch is approaching, and dark clouds are piling up in the sky. The night was very dark, and it was also very quiet, because it was not far from Hangu Pass at this time, and there was no sign of Chen Ying leading the pursuit, Zheng Jun was very relaxed from top to bottom, except for some poor unlucky ones left outside the camp to act as sentinels against the cold wind, everyone else fell asleep and fell asleep.

In order to prevent accidental slipping and making a sound, Liu Tong also ordered all the officers and men of the whole army to bite small wooden sticks.

About a stone's throw away from the Zheng army's camp, the Zheng army's sentries did not find any trace of the Beiwei army. Liu Tong looked at the flickering candle flame in the Taichu Palace halfway up the mountain, and thought to himself: "Whether it is life or death, it depends on this battle." ”

Liu Tong took a deep breath and whispered to the Xun Xiang beside him: "Do you see the hall of light there?" ”

Looking at the Zheng army camp, although there are lights in the Zheng army camp, but the arrangement is dotted, the people who set up the camp are obviously proficient in the art of war, looking at the past from the outside, most of the camp tents in the camp are hidden in the dark, so that people can not see the reality inside, so the brightly lit Taichu Palace in the middle is very obvious.

Liu Tongdao: "Either it is where Wang Renze's handsome tent is, or it is a trap, or it is the head work, or it is the ...... of death."

Xun Xiang said: "I'll come!" ”

Liu Tong raised his horizontal knife and slashed forward, and shouted loudly: "Back the Wei army, attack!" ”

The thick and desolate horn suddenly sounded in the dark night, and more than 1,200 soldiers of the four regiments of the Beiwei Army immediately launched an attack from all directions outside the Taichu Palace.

More than 1,200 people of the Beiwei army roared together, and it sounded like a herd of beasts howling at night in the dark night, which shocked countless Zheng army soldiers whose dreams turned into nightmares and woke up suddenly.

Most of the soldiers of the Zheng army slept in their clothes, running out in a mess, the soldiers were not generals, and they could not find soldiers, but where was the time at this time? The Don army has already broken out of the camp. Of course, the most important thing is that the Zheng soldiers were too tired, the weather was cold at this time, and it was not easy to cut wood, so they didn't even set up a simple camp to defend against wild beasts.

This is more convenient for the soldiers of the Beiwei Army to rush in, the soldiers of the Beiwei Army in all directions, all thinking of competing for the first merit of capturing the flag, have been towards the Taichu Palace, all the way to see the camp tent burned, see people on the stabbing and slashing, non-stop, soldiers do not stop, this Zheng military camp has been washed into a sieve, the camp is full of fires.

At this time, Wang Renze's remnants still had more than 15,000 people, and the strength of this large battalion was 13 times that of the Beiwei army. However, at this time, most of them had no time to organize the accumulation, only the 1,000 people of the pro-guard army near the Taichu Palace and more than 200 people from the Zhengxi Rotation Department gathered, and the others were all in chaos, and many of them did not even distinguish between friend and foe, so they slashed and killed indiscriminately.

Xunxiang was originally Wei Chigong's deputy general, but now Wei Chigong has been appointed by Chen Ying as the left guard rate and has become a senior general in the East Palace, one of the six rates. The status is second only to Chen Ying, Xue Wanche, Li Shiji, Yang Wengan and Feng Li, becoming the sixth military general of the East Palace, and at this time, although he has also become a senior military general from the fourth grade, the gap with Wei Chigong is getting farther and farther.

Xun Xiang is also secretly anxious, fortunately, Chen Ying is a very fair person, as long as he makes meritorious service, he does not worry that Chen Ying will be greedy for his merits. Xunxiang led his troops into the Zheng army's formation, these soldiers of the Wei Army were selected by Chen Ying from the four rates and eighteen folds of the whole army to rush to the mansion, although they were not as strong as an ox like the Modao Army, but their body coordination and reaction were the most sensitive.

Seeing that Xun Xiang was so brave, the soldiers of the Beiwei Army also worked hard.

At this time, the officers and men of the Zheng army in the large camp were like sitting on a small boat and moving up and down in the push and shove of the stormy waves, and there were soldiers in front and behind, left and right, there were enemies and me, and the enemy and me were clear in the bright fire, and it was difficult to distinguish between the enemy and us in the dim fire, and it was impossible to correctly grasp the overall situation of the battlefield by relying on the naked eye, but must rely on experience and intuition to judge.

Wang Ren was experienced, and he could see at a glance that although the Tang army was shouting and shouting, it was short of troops. It was not the Tang soldiers who caused the biggest casualties, but their own people who slashed and killed indiscriminately.

Wang Ren angrily ordered: "Kill those who dare to lie!" ”

"Kill those who dare to make noise!"

"Kill those who dare to rebel!"

At the moment of emergency, Wang Ren issued a barbaric and bloody order to kill the army, and the chaotic situation in the military camp was brought under control in a very short time. Liu Tongyi saw that the soldiers of the Zheng army had gradually stabilized, and knew that he had lost the opportunity to kill the generals and capture the flag, as long as he ordered to retreat.

Finally, it was dawn, near the camp of Taichu Palace, there was smoke rising everywhere, looking at the camp full of burned tents and heavy grain and grass burned to ashes, as well as dense corpses, Wang Renze's face turned as black as charcoal.

"Are the statistics out?"

"Back to the general, the results have come out, in last night's attack on the camp of the Tang army, a total of 2,356 people of our army were killed, more than 3,000 people were injured, and more than 2,000 people were missing!"

Hearing the news, Wang Renze's eyes went dark and he almost fell to the ground. Read the latest chapters, stay tuned