"The time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people." Almost everyone has heard this phrase.

At present, it is a dispute between the right time, the right place and the right people, and the Tang army occupies the tall and strong Chang'an City, which can be said to occupy the best geographical advantages.

However, Tianshi helped Tubo, as for the people, Tubo has nearly 130,000 troops, and the Tang army in Chang'an City is less than 50,000, which can barely be regarded as human peace, people and this item, the Tang army lost again.

The Tang army has lost two of the three major combat factors, and it will naturally fall into a bitter battle, losing its bed crossbow weapon, and the Tang army will be like a tiger falling into Pingyang.

Chang'an City is too big, the line of troops is too long, 50,000 troops are really difficult to hold, at the end of the day, the Tang army lost more than 10,000 soldiers, Li Jing knew that this is not a way, that night order, overnight to move people and materials into the imperial city, tomorrow when the battle again, if the situation is not right, immediately withdraw into the imperial city.

The god of war is the god of war, dare to make trade-offs, will not be confined to the gains and losses of one city and one pool, in his eyes, only the victory of the war, full of the overall situation.

The next morning, Tubo attacked the city again, although the temperature has risen, but the effect is not very obvious, and the hands of the Tang soldiers have long been frostbitten, and the bed crossbows have been destroyed, even if the weather returns to summer, it seems to be useless.

Li Jing ordered to splash the city wall with water at night, so that the city wall froze, and hindered the Tibetan army from ascending the city, although it played a big role, but it seemed that it could not reverse the tide of the war, and in the afternoon, after Li Jing listened to the report of the battle damage, he frowned and groaned for a long time, and immediately ordered the whole army to retreat and defend the imperial city.

The Tang army retreated, the Tubo army swarmed up, occupied the outer city of Chang'an, and rejoiced, after Lu Dongzan entered Chang'an, when even if he ordered to close all the city gates, in case the Tang reinforcements arrived, and Li Hao's army was still more than seventy miles away from Chang'an at the moment, the snow road was slippery, and the speed of the cavalry could not go up, and it would take at least a day or two to reach Chang'an.

After Lu Dongzan occupied the outer city of Chang'an, he decided to take advantage of the morale of the army to take the imperial city in one fell swoop, so he ordered to attack the city overnight, from night to noon the next day, both sides suffered heavy losses, the Tang army only had more than 20,000 people left, and the Tubo army also lost more than 30,000.

Li Jing is experiencing the worst battle in his life, the 5,000 troops on the Xuanwu Gate side are immovable, that is the back door of the Taiji Palace, and they must stay there to resist the 10,000 troops of Lunzhu Renzeng, if the Xuanwu Gate is lost, then everything is over.

Considering that there were only 20,000 people, and it seemed inadequate to defend the imperial city, Li Jing gritted his teeth and ordered to retreat to the Taiji Palace.

That night, the Tang army retreated directly to the Taiji Palace, the huge Taiji Palace gathered more than 200,000 people at the moment, Li Shimin's body has recovered a lot recently, almost every other hour, will receive a battle report sent by Li Jing.

That night, Li Shimin wore a plush coat, stood in front of the Taiji Palace, looking at the majestic Taiji Square full of refuge tents, he could even feel the panic of the people, and his heart suddenly felt sour, Li Zhi quietly came to his side, and called softly: "Father, you are recovering from a serious illness, don't come out at night, you will freeze." ”

Li Shimin didn't answer, and after being silent for a long time, he suddenly said: "The matter of making Li Hao the generalissimo of soldiers and horses...... I don't regret it now. ”

Li Zhi was stunned when he heard this, and then he was relieved, in fact, Li Shimin was not willing to make Li Hao the generalissimo of the Ten Soldiers and Horses at all, and the reason why he nodded and allowed the holy decree was completely forced by the situation, but at this moment, Li Shimin finally figured it out, the people have been reduced to taking refuge in the Taiji Palace, what else does he have to retreat, even if Li Hao rebels and usurps the throne, at least he will treat the people well.

Li Shimin suddenly turned his head to look at Li Zhi and asked, "Zhi'er, what did you say about Li Hao...... Will it take the opportunity to steal the Tang Dynasty? ”

Li Zhi shook his head: "No." ”

"That's what you believe in him?" Li Shimin looked at Li Zhi suspiciously.

Li Zhi nodded vigorously: "He is Erchen's teacher and Erchen's best friend, Erchen knows him, just like he knows Erchen, Li Hao is not that kind of person." ”

"Alas...... I hope so......" Li Shimin sighed and said slowly, "Zhi'er, my father is old, if Li Hao is able to turn the tide this time, and does not take the opportunity to rebel, it means that Li Hao is indeed brave and loyal, you can cite it as the humerus, don't use suspicious people, don't doubt people, you understand what your father means, right?" ”

Li Zhi solemnly bowed his hand: "Yes, the son understands it, father." ”

Ge Erdonzan occupied the imperial city again, but he was very happy, as long as he captured the Taiji Palace, he could cut off Li Shimin's head, from now on, he Ge Dong Zan will be famous all over the world, and they Tubo can also enter the Central Plains, since then to replace the Tang Dynasty, whip the world, deter all nations, this is not enough, at that time, he will find an opportunity to stand up Songtsan Gampo, seize its throne, then he Ge Dongzan is the Khan, holding the power of life and death of hundreds of millions of living beings, he is confident, with his supreme intelligence, looking at the universe, invincible, Lu Dongzan is not a high-ranking person, he also has a very strong desire for power, but he is good at forbearance.

This time, Ge Dongzan did not choose to continue to advance, because the siege of the city for a day and night had exhausted the Tubo army, and he ordered the army to rest for a night and take the Taiji Palace in one fell swoop tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Ge Erdongzan ordered a large-scale attack on the Taiji Palace, because this was the last line of defense, the Tang army had already embraced the heart of death, and tens of thousands of young and strong people also poured into the city to help throw stones and rolling wood to resist the enemy.

However, the city wall of Taiji Palace is not as tall as the Chang'an city wall, the Tang army occupies no obvious advantage, and now there are only 10,000 defenders left, among which Jin Wuwei and the left and right Xiaowei are the main, Li Yuanzhong and Peng Hai are guarding the east and west city walls, fighting bloodily, the battle at the Chengtianmen is more intense, Li Jing personally sits in the town, the city wall is full of corpses, many young and strong people spontaneously come to defend the city, they also know that at such a time, they can not retreat, because behind them, stand all their own, and the hope of the nation.

The Tibetan general who was responsible for leading the army to attack the city was Goddalman, who was defeated in the hands of Li Hao, and Goddalman had not been reused in Tubo since he was defeated by Li Hao, and it can be said that he was holding back his grievances, he wanted to use this battle to make himself famous, and make up for his lost reputation, he personally took the stage outside the Chengtian Gate to beat the drums and boost morale, this trick really worked, the Tubo army set up a cloud ladder to the city wall as if crazy, and the city wood had begun to hit the Chengtian Gate.

Li Jing ordered the Chengtian Gate to be blocked, and then asked the guards to help him stand up, looking at Goddalman beating drums in the distance below the city.

After being silent for a long time, Li Jing suddenly shouted: "Take my bow!" ”

All the guards were stunned when they heard this, no one moved, Li Jing glared and shouted: "You dare to disobey the military order?" ”

The guards were helpless, and immediately someone stepped back and went to get the bow, and soon, a guard took a big bow over, Li Jing stretched out his rickety hand and took it, gently stroked the bow arm, as if stroking his beloved child, and said leisurely: "Earthquake Bow, Earthquake Bow, you accompany me to fight all my life, now I am old, but you are still the same as back then, today, will be my last battle, I want to use you to prove that I Li Jing will be a life...... Not weaker than others! ”

He said that he spread his hands evenly and said slowly: "Arrows!" ”

"General!" Li Lan, Li Jing's most trusted guard, said urgently, "General, your current body ...... Can't shoot the bow! ”

"Arrows!" Li Jing didn't seem to hear it, and his voice was cold and arrogant.

"General!" Li Lan knelt down with a plop, pleading with tears in her eyes, "General, you can't shoot the bow!" You can't shoot a bow! ”

"Arrows!" Li Jing's voice was even louder, and in the dim light of his eyes, there was a cold killing intent.

"General...... Cannot...... Don't ......" Li Lan burst into tears, prostrate on the ground and begged, in his opinion, if Li Jing's current body forcibly opened the bow, it would be tantamount to suicide.

Li Jing turned his head abruptly and glared at the guard holding the quiver on the side, and the guard was glared at by him, and his whole body was like falling into an ice cave, and he shivered.

Li Jing directly stretched out his hand and pulled out a feather arrow from the quiver he was holding, this feather arrow was obviously four inches longer than the ordinary feather arrow, and it was his sky-shaking bow with special arrows.

Li Jing was like a return to the light, a push away the guards who were holding him, he had been paralyzed for many years, he couldn't stand up, this is not enough, he actually took two steps forward, came to the battlements, bent the bow and arrows, in one go, the three-stone strong bow was pulled by him like a full moon, the cold wind flew up his white hair, adding a little messy, in the light of his eyes, burst out like thunder and lightning, but all the guards saw this scene, all knelt down, tears flowed, they knew that Li Jing was returning to the light, an arrow out, the enemy will die, he will also die……

"Hum" a soft sound, Li Jing let go, the arrow was like a meteor, flashed away, through the sky, through countless arrow rain, this arrow carries Li Jing's lifelong memories, is so dazzling, because he is the supreme arrow shot by the Tang Dynasty military god with his life, and it is a supreme honor to die under this arrow.

Godoldman, who was beating the drum, suddenly flew out, slammed into the snare drum, and then ...... The red blood flowed down the surface of the drum, Godoldman's body was like a swing, dangling there, Li Jing's magic arrow actually shot through Godoldman's head, nailing it to the huge snare drum, the Tibetan army saw this scene, all stunned, forgetting to siege the city.

After Li Jing shot an arrow, he took a few steps back, fell on the wheelchair, his face flushed like blood, and then opened his mouth and spit out a burst of blood.

"General!" All the guards came forward on their knees, crying and screaming.

Li Jing slowly closed his eyes, all the experiences before his life flashed through his mind, and finally froze on a picture, it was a big man with a bearded face, and a beautiful woman in red, this was his obsession in this life.

"Pass me on...... Military order ......" Li Jing no longer had the strength to open his eyes, he used all his strength to raise a command flag, and said intermittently, "Qin Qiong will take over me...... Defend the city's position! After he finished saying the last word, his head suddenly drooped, and the heaven-shaking bow also took off his hand and fell to the ground, and the Tang Army God ...... Fallen.