Tang Yin's group's trip to Mo Country came and went even faster. They stayed in Mo Country for less than ten days, but its impact on Mo Country was inestimable.
There was no talking on the way. Tang Yin and others followed Zhao Ju's caravan out of the border of Mo State and entered Ba Pass, and then returned to Xibai, the county seat of Lehu County, via Ba Pass.
Tang Yin's visit lasted almost two months. During these two months, a lot of things happened. The first was Ning Guo's counterattack on Tongmen.
The news of the fall of Tongmen shocked the entire Ning Kingdom. It can be said that the whole country was in an uproar. After Ning King Yanchu learned about the incident, he did not delay for a moment. He immediately ordered Ning State's General Kong Jie to command 200,000 troops to go to Tongmen and issued a death sentence.
Order, no matter what the cost, Tongmen must be recaptured.
Kong Jie accepted the emperor's order and led 200,000 Ning troops from Ningdu Liangzhou. They marched all the way and arrived at Tongmen in only half a month. After the troops arrived at the city, the Ning troops did not take any rest and immediately launched a large-scale attack on Tongmen.
The west gate of the city was already strong, and the city wall was high and thick, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. However, Kong Jie came in a hurry, and the army did not have enough large-scale siege equipment. To launch an siege in a hurry was to use people to lay the groundwork.
The 200,000-strong Ning Army was attacked head-on by more than 80,000 Sanshui Army, resulting in countless casualties. Outside Tongmen City, corpses piled up like mountains and blood flowed into rivers.
Two hundred thousand Ning troops attacked the city for three consecutive days. Instead of entering the city, they lost troops and generals, making the officers and men miserable.
On the fourth day of the battle, when the Ning army was still aggressively attacking, Liang Qi saw that the morale of the Ning army was low and the personnel were exhausted, so he ordered Shangguan Yuanrang to command all 5,000 cavalry in the city to rush out of the city to meet the Ning army.
Shangguan Yuanrang led five thousand cavalry to suddenly rush out of Tongmen, and plunged directly into the Ning army's siege team like a knife. The Ning army camp was in chaos, and the front troops were defeated one after another. The soldiers trampled on each other and trampled to death.
There were countless injured.
The 5,000 cavalrymen pursued the Ning army from the front army into the Ning army camp. They were unstoppable. The Ning army could not resist and abandoned the camp and fled. The 5,000 cavalrymen chased the enemy for ten miles. Only then did Liang Qi order
Return victoriously.
After this battle, most of the 200,000 Ning army suffered casualties and was no longer able to attack the city. Kong Jie led the remaining troops to defeat the general and returned to Liangzhou.
After learning about Kong Jie's tragic defeat, Yan Chu not only removed him from the title of general, but also reduced his official position and title to the bottom, and then ordered another general of Ning Guo, Ming Xiaotian, to command the 200,000-strong Ning Guo elite Central Army.
Go to Tongmen.
Ming Xiaotian was a veteran general of the Ning State. He was very good at using troops and won the trust of Ning King Yan Chu. Although the Central Army under his command rushed to Tongmen, they did not immediately order an attack on the city. Instead, they ordered the entire army to camp and rest while starting
Inquiring about the news inside Tongmen, and at the same time waiting for the heavy baggage from the rear to be transported to the army.
Ming Xiaotian faced the Tianyuan Army this time as if he were facing a formidable enemy. He was careful and did not dare to make any negligence. His son Mingxuan had been a prisoner of the Tianyuan Army. He was also impressed by the cunning of the Tianyuan Army.
Profound. Due to the tight security of the Sanshui Army stationed in Tongmen, although Ming Xiaotian sent a large number of spies, no valuable intelligence was obtained.
He stayed outside Tongmen for ten days. After all the baggage from the rear arrived, he made a tentative siege. The elite of the Ningguo Central Army was indeed unmatched by other armies, and they also had large-scale siege equipment.
Support, although it is only a tentative attack, it is still very sharp.
The Sanshui Army defended the city and resisted tenaciously. When the Ning Army came up, their counterattack was still fierce. Arrows rained down from the top of the city, and rolling logs and stones were not stopped for a moment. The trebuchets in the city fired huge rocks from time to time, smashing into Ning.
The damage caused by the siege square formation of the Sanshui Army was extremely large. In addition, the city-breaking crossbows and army-breaking crossbows carried by the Sanshui Army also brought considerable threats and troubles to the Ning Army, especially the city-breaking crossbows.
It was used to break the city, but now it is used to defend the city. The range of the shooting from the top is astonishing. It can even go over the top of the Ning army's formation and directly hit the trebuchet behind the Ning army. The trebuchet is inherently fragile, which
It could withstand the collision of wooden stakes. After two trebuchets were damaged by city-breaking crossbows, Ming Xiaotian immediately ordered the trebuchets to be withdrawn. However, once the trebuchets were withdrawn, their range could not reach Tongmen.
The head of the city wall has lost its function.
After a round of tentative attacks, Ming Xiaotian immediately realized that the enemy troops in Tongmen were large in number and well-prepared. It was simply not something that 200,000 of his own troops could attack by force, let alone capture Tongmen in a short period of time.
Door.
Subsequently, Ming Xiaotian ordered the entire army to retreat and stationed outside the west city of Tongmen. They neither attacked nor retreated. They stood still and started a confrontation with the Sanshui Army occupying Tongmen. At the same time, Ming Xiaotian ordered his troops to rush forward.
Back to Liangzhou, he went to see King Yan Chu and asked Yan Chu to give orders to the two brothers Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi in the Feng Kingdom. The two of them would command the Ning Army to attack Tongmen from the inside of Feng District, and interact with his 200,000-strong central army.
If they cooperate, they can launch a pincer attack and attack Tongmen from both the east and west sides. There is no need to worry about Tongmen not being breached.
After receiving Ming Xiaotian's advice, Yan Chu immediately accepted it and immediately ordered Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi to retreat quickly and assist Ming Xiaotian in the flanking attack on Tongmen.
At this time, the Zhan brothers already knew the news of the fall of Tongmen. After the original guard of Tongmen, Zhang Xiaoting, fled, he defected to the Zhan Wushuang brothers and asked them to immediately command the army to rescue Tongmen. Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi
They all knew the importance of Tongmen to their own side and wanted to rescue them. However, the Tianyuan Army had fully occupied Lehu County and could go south to attack Yancheng at any time. Without King Ning's order, how could they dare to mobilize the army privately?
After receiving the message from Yan Chu, the Zhan brothers breathed a sigh of relief. Without hesitation, they immediately sent their troops west to attack Tongmen.
The 200,000 Ning army commanded by the Zhan brothers was like the last trump card in Zhong Tian's hand. The two brothers led the 200,000 Ning army to evacuate Yancheng and wanted to go back to attack Tongmen. Zhong Tian immediately panicked and left the palace in person.
Go to see the Zhan brothers and ask them to stay in Yancheng.
Now Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi felt upset when they saw Zhong Tian, and they didn't have a good look towards him. Moreover, now that they had Prince Ning's order in their hands, they ignored Zhong Tian at all and forced to break camp overnight and lead the entire army to
Tongmen.
The Ning army withdrew, not to mention Zhong Tianmeng. Even the civil servants and generals in his hands were frightened and did not know what to do. With the Ning army on their side to help guard Yancheng, they were still confident that they could withstand the Tianyuan army.
, now they are left alone to defend the city, how can they still resist the Tianyuan Army, which is close to 500,000 people?
Panic first spread from the royal court, and soon spread to the entire army and even the entire city. The 200,000 central soldiers who had finally been organized by Zhong Tian were panic-stricken and had no fighting spirit. All the officers and men felt that a disaster was imminent.
Let's talk about Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi, who led 200,000 Ning troops to rush all the way to the east city of Tongmen, and formed a pincer attack with Ming Xiaotian and others outside the west city. Now, the Sanshui Army stationed at Tongmen will
They were facing 400,000 Ning troops, and they were still being attacked from both sides.
With a mere 80,000 men defending an isolated city against an enemy force of 400,000, any commander would panic, but Liang Qi could keep his composure. He divided the more than 80,000 soldiers under his command into 50,000, led by Shangguan Yuan.
He led the army and garrisoned the east city to resist the 200,000 Ning army of the Zhan brothers. He himself only led more than 30,000 people to garrison the west city to resist the 200,000 Central Army of Ming Xiaotian.
Because Tongmen was blocking them, Ming Xiaotian, Zhan Wushuang, and Zhan Wudi could not meet each other, so they could only pass messages through flying pigeons. Soon, the two parties agreed on a time and prepared to join forces to attack the city.
On the agreed date, 400,000 Ning troops launched a fierce attack on Tongmen from the east and west sides. According to Ming Xiaotian's wishes, the first battle was the decisive battle, and the Zhan family brothers invested all their troops.
This fierce battle can no longer be described as bloody and cruel. Tongmen has simply turned into a huge meat grinder, constantly devouring the lives of soldiers on both sides.
The battle lasted from early morning to late at night. Under the desperate resistance of the Sanshui Army, the 400,000 Ning Army was blocked outside Tongmen City and barely entered Tongmen.
Seeing that the Ning army was preparing to attack the city overnight, Shangguan Yuanrang, who was fighting alone for the first time, was extremely excited. Without any discussion with Liang Qi, he handed over the command to a corps commander, and he repeated his old tricks.
He once again led the cavalry to suddenly rush out of Tongmen and broke into the Ning army's camp at night.
When our 400,000-strong army joined forces to attack the city, the enemy troops did not defend the city and fought back. This was indeed beyond Ning's army's expectations. Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi's generals were suddenly killed by Shangguan Yuanrang and all of them were beaten.
They were caught off guard, and the soldiers in front threw down their helmets and armor, and retreated backwards in pieces.
And because it was too dark, the Ning army in the rear couldn't see clearly the situation ahead, so they still pushed forward desperately. Each time they retreated and the other came close, they collided, causing the entire Ning army camp to be in chaos. The soldiers pushed and trampled each other.
Without the enemy's attack, the casualties caused by oneself would have been huge.
Zhan Wudi saw a cavalry force coming out of Tongmen, which was unstoppable and caused chaos in his own siege camp. He immediately rushed to fight. As soon as he came up, he happened to bump into Shangguan Yuanrang who was charging at the front.
The two of them were already old acquaintances. When they met, they immediately fought each other without even saying hello.
Zhan Wudi is a brave and skilled general. His cultivation and spiritual skills are ranked among the top three in the entire Ning Kingdom. However, compared with the brave and invincible Shangguan Yuanrang, he is still far behind. The two fought for more than thirty rounds.
, Zhan Wudi gradually could only parry the attacks and had no power to fight back. After fighting for more than ten rounds, Zhan Wudi had been stabbed by Shangguan Yuanrang's three-pointed two-edged sword. The man with full head was panting and did not dare to fight anymore. He turned around.
Just run away.
Shangguan Yuanrang knew that Zhan Wudi was one of the commanders of the 200,000 Ning Army, so he was not willing to let him escape easily, so he galloped his horse to pursue him.
The two men ran and chased each other, starting a chase in the midst of the huge Ning army camp.
Zhan Wudi went out to block Zhan Wudi, and although he could only hold off Shangguan Yuanrang for a short time, Ning Jun, who had trained quickly, still took advantage of this gap to calm down. By the time Shangguan Yuanrang chased Zhan Wudi, Ning's soldiers were ready with dozens of soldiers.
The root is tied to the horse lock, facing Shangguan Yuan Rang.
No matter how good Shangguan Yuanrang's riding skills are, he can dodge one or two horse locks, but he can't avoid them all. In a short time, Shangguan Yuanrang's horse was tripped by a horse lock, and he was caught in a row.
The man and his horse fell to the ground. The surrounding Ning troops thought they had an opportunity and swarmed forward. However, they fell faster as they climbed up. As a few rays of cold light flashed by, all the Ning soldiers who rushed past were stunned.
The waves were chopped off, and the broken limbs and arms were scattered all over the ground.