Li Daozong overlooked a key point.

This neglect made Xiao Guan precarious.

He only said that Luo Siye killed from Dingxiang to Lingwu with 20,000 troops, and then attacked Longyou, the elite of Xuanwu must have suffered a lot of casualties, and it is not bad to have 20,000 left, and now he has made four or five hundred thousand people, which is obviously a rabble.

But he didn't expect that among the hundreds of thousands of rabble, there were actually not a few who could really fight. It can be said that with Luo Cheng's defeat of the Turkic Jieli Khan in the north, Li Yuan lost 100,000 soldiers and horses in Dingxiang, and after losing Hetao and Longyou, the local heroes in the land of Helong, and the vassal tribes, were not optimistic about Li Tang, and they all wanted to beat the water dogs, and then use this as a name to fight for a position in the new dynasty.

What's more, Siye is also an experienced veteran, and after his simple reorganization, the effect is still good. At this time, with the elite government soldiers taking the lead, this good steel was used on the blade, and this forty-meter-long big knife was still extremely sharp.

Compared with.

The defenders on Xiao Pass were neither the elite Xiaoguo that Li Yuan brought back from Jiangdu at the beginning, nor the Guan Long disciples recruited in Guanzhong later, nor the Longyou soldiers who surrendered after defeating the Xue family, and the current Xiao Pass guards were just a group of strong men urgently recruited nearby.

There is a lack of armor, poor weapons, not to mention a lack of training, and not enough good officers.

Although Li Daozong defended Xiao Pass when Siye tentatively attacked Xiao Pass before, it was just that Siye did not really attack, and he turned to attack Longyou.

Now that he has turned around, he has made a move with anger again, but it is not Li Daozu who can still get away with it.

In fact, Li Daozong also asked Chang'an for help countless times, but now Li Yuan has no troops and horses to reinforce Xiao Guan.

Li Yuan now only has one Guanzhong left, the land of Bashu that was attached before, and now the Hanzhong region is occupied by the Qin army, although Shuzhong is still nominally the Tang Dynasty, but it has been cut off, and money, food, soldiers and horses cannot come.

Wuguan was lost early, and the Qin army approached Lantian Pass.

There have long been Qin troops under the scattered passes, not to mention that there are also Qin troops outside Pusaka and Tongguan.

In this case, reinforcements are needed everywhere, and the remaining 100,000 horses in Guanzhong can't move anywhere. Li Yuan could only send Li Daozong a lot of blank official positions and asked him to find a way to recruit soldiers.

What can Li Daozong do?

In the end, he could only find the nobles and powerful people in the nearby states, and then give them these confessions, and then let them recruit soldiers and horses.

He appointed a local Haoqiangzi as a general, and then asked him to find a way to recruit several regimental generals, and the regimental generals recruited several battalion captains through their own connections.

The battalion captain then went to recruit the team leader himself.

The leader of the team went back to his hometown to recruit five fire chiefs, and the fire chiefs pulled nine people over each of them.

Through this kind of layer-by-layer subcontracting, Li Daozong gave Xiao Guan more than 20,000 horses in a short period of time.

Xiao Guan has two armies under his jurisdiction, but they are basically infantry, and more than ninety percent of them are recruits.

Although these soldiers are all relatives of the same country and are relatively united, no matter how united they are, they are also new recruits, with insufficient equipment, insufficient training, and insufficient experience and ability of the officers, how to fight a war?

Under the city of Xiao Guan.

Siye took off his shirt, went naked, and personally stood under the handsome flag and beat drums and cheers.

The drums shook the ground, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

Duan Zhixuan even pushed his general flag directly to a distance of 200 steps under Xiaoguan City.

The Qin army's style of play was extremely simple, taking advantage of the advantages of numbers, especially the advantage of bows and crossbows, and covering the clusters on the city with bows and crossbows.

Then cover the more elite Xuanwu to climb the ladder to tackle the key points.

There is almost no tactical deployment, that is, to bully the few soldiers in Guan and the new recruits in Guan Shang.

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!"

Li Daozong's face was pierced by a stray arrow, from the left side of his face to the right and out, but he refused to go down to the city.

"County King, your injury!"

"Get a medic!" Li Daozong endured the pain.

A Chinese military doctor came over with a medicine box on his back and came under the cover of the shields of several Tang soldiers.

"Draw my arrows."

The military doctor looked at it, "King, it's too chaotic and dangerous here, please go down to the city and draw arrows to heal your wounds." ”

"Pull it out right here!"

Li Daozong looked at the precarious Guancheng and gritted his teeth.

The military doctor shook his head, how did he move his hand on such a chaotic battlefield.

"King, although the arrow wound is not particularly serious, it is not easy to deal with, please go down to the city."

Li Daozong drew his sword and directly slashed the military doctor with a sword.

"Another medic."

Another military doctor called, and the man was even more frightened with trembling hands and feet, and he couldn't operate here at all, so Li Daozong cut him down with another sword.

"Another one!"

The third medic saw that the corpses of the first two companions were still on the ground, so he gritted his teeth and fetched arrows for him. His hands and feet trembled so much that Li Daozong's face was covered with blood, but Li Daozong didn't snort, and even kept commanding and dispatching defense.

When the arrows were finished, the medic collapsed to the ground.

Li Daozong didn't care about the blood on his body and continued to command.

But looking around, the defenders were already very sparse.

"King, Gu An ran away."

Gu An was one of the two generals appointed by Li Daozong, the son-in-law of the Gu clan of the Pingliang clan, and had previously served as the captain of Yingyang in the Sui Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, this person's chest was usually beating, and the words were loud, and he actually ran away at a critical time.

As soon as Gu An ran, the regimental generals he recruited also ran away, and the soldiers below also dispersed.

It's almost worse.

"Hurry up and make up for the defenses over there!" Li Daozong roared.

But it was too late, as soon as Gu An's people withdrew, that section of the city was empty, and the Qin army below immediately climbed the ladder and jumped up to the top of the city.

By the time Li Daozong arrived with his sword, hundreds of Qin warriors had already boarded the city, and a red Qin-character battle flag had also been planted at the head of the city.

Those Qin troops who jumped up to the city, they were dressed in iron armor, shields in one hand and swords in the other, and they gathered together in threes, fives, and fives, like pieces of fish scales, guarding the cloud ladder behind them.

More Qin troops are still ascending the city.

Although Li Daozong desperately rushed over, he still couldn't drive them off the city.

A crossbow team also ascended to the top of the city, and they jumped on the top of the city, quickly assembled, and then rows of crossbow spikes swept over, clearing a large clearing in front of them.

Li Daozong held his sword high, and a row of crossbows came over.

"Be careful, King!"

Several personal soldiers rushed forward to block the arrows for him, and more arrows were fired, but Li Daozong was still shot to the ground.

"Shoot Li Daozong!"

The crossbowmen of the Qin army shouted excitedly.

This call made the Qin troops behind cheer in unison.

When the Tang army in the distance heard this sound, it was almost a collapse on the side of the avalanche.

There will be no fighting spirit, and the soldiers will have no morale.

Gu An's escape from the battle only endangered a section of the city, but the fall of Li Daozong made the remaining defenders unable to hold on any longer.

Like an avalanche, the defeat is like a mountain.

Xiao Pass, the northwest gateway of Guanzhong, guarded by more than 20,000 Tang troops, was not defended for even a day, and was broken by Luo Siye!

Gu An personally opened the north gate of Xiao Pass, leading countless Qin troops to pour in!