Li Yuan left his third son, Li Yuanji, to guard Taiyuan and be responsible for the rear base affairs. Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin followed the army. As Li Shimin's general at this time, Yan Ling naturally joined Li Yuan's army in conquering Chang'an.
Li Yuan raised troops to attack Chang'an. Professional personnel were responsible for the specific march route and combat plan. Not to mention that Yan Ling's status was not enough to participate in the decision-making of these plans. Moreover, Li Yuan's military strategy and grasp of the current situation were beyond compare.
Any one of the father and son is far better than him, so Yan Ling is now more like the executor of the plan, just following Li Shimin's orders.
The Sui Dynasty forces on the Chang'an side sent Hu Yalang General Song Laosheng to lead 20,000 elite troops to garrison Huoyi, and sent Qu Tutong to lead tens of thousands Xiaoguo to garrison Hedong. Echoing Song Laosheng, Huoyi was Li Yuan's attack on Chang'an.
The Sui Dynasty's move was undoubtedly to cut off Li Yuan's progress.
August is supposed to be the hottest season of the year, but when Li Yuan led his army from the small road to the southeast to Huoyi, he encountered continuous heavy rain. The continuous heavy rain would cause problems in the transportation of grain and grass in the rear of Li Yuan's army. Once the army was in Huoyi and Song
Laosheng's army is lingering around, and I'm afraid Li Yuan's army will be defeated without attacking. This is really a sign of God's unfaithfulness!
Just when Li Yuan was thinking about retreating, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, who were accompanying the army, advised Song Laosheng that he was brave but not wise and would definitely go to war. Facing the persuasion of Li Shimin and others, Li Yuan was deeply moved and decided to give it a try.
Seeing that Li Yuan decided to attack Huoyi, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin and others quickly made a battle plan and arranged for Li Yuan and hundreds of cavalry to ambush in the east of Huoyi City. Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin led dozens of cavalry to the city to insult Song Laosheng.
Yan Ling followed Li Shimin, and while everyone was scolding, Yan Ling observed the Sui army on the city wall intently, and found that the generals gathered above the city gate, and in the center was Song Laosheng, who was nearly sixty years old, but did not look old at all.
, this man has a face like a purple eggplant, black nostrils, big ears, a white beard floating on his chest, a broad back and a round waist, and is strong and tall. As Li Shimin and others shouted, this man's face became more and more ugly. Fortunately,
The skin is purple and black, which was not so obvious just now.
As a fierce general of the Sui Dynasty, how could Song Laosheng suffer such humiliation in vain? Not long after, Song Laosheng disappeared at the top of the city. Just when Yan Ling thought that Li Shimin's plan was wrong, the Huoyi city gate opened wide and a large number of people rushed out.
The leader of the men and horses was none other than Song Laosheng, who had disappeared from the top of the city. At this time, Song Laosheng was riding a tall war horse. He did not hold a long weapon like a spear in his hand like a general general, but held a hundred
The steel-making knife, carrying the power of the army behind it, looks powerful and unparalleled!
Yan Ling and dozens of cavalrymen quickly escorted Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng away. Song Laosheng naturally did not want these two bastards who insulted him to leave easily, so he led an army in pursuit. Yan Ling turned around and smiled, this is the Sui Dynasty general.
How could the Sui Dynasty be immortal if it was so easily taken over?
After leading Song Laosheng to chase him for a certain distance, Li Yuan asked his general Yin Kaishan to summon an army to intercept Song Laosheng's army. Looking at the army in front of him, Song Laosheng didn't know that he had fallen into the trap, but it was already too late to turn back now.
Li Shimin had already led his troops down and began to attack Song Laosheng's military formation. Yan Ling even gathered his cavalry battalion and appeared behind Song Laosheng's army, cutting off Song Laosheng's way back.
Caught in a dilemma, Song Laosheng chose to face Yan Ling's cavalry battalion, withdraw his troops, and wanted to return to Huoyi City. This was indeed Song Laosheng's only chance of survival, but unfortunately Yan Ling, who had been staring at him, would not give him a reply.
Opportunity to go to Huoyi.
Song Laosheng had to deal with Li Shimin's charge and at the same time muster his troops to change direction. The Sui army was in chaos for a while, but Yan Ling keenly seized this opportunity and led his cavalry to charge while the Sui army's formation was in chaos.
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This was a one-sided battle. Whether calculated or not, Song Laosheng was powerless to fight back against the attacks of Yan Ling, Li Shimin and others. This made Yan Ling feel that this battle was not even as powerful as the two thousand troops who had previously raided the Turks.
It came intensely.
As Song Laosheng was beheaded, the Sui army completely lost the morale of the counterattack. What was even better was that when the defenders in Huoyi saw that Song Laosheng was in danger, they suddenly had a trance and led the remaining defenders.
Let's go out of the city together to support Song Laosheng. Isn't this giving away the head of Li Yuan who is ambushing at the side?
This dramatic siege battle came to an end with Li Yuan's massacre. I thought it would be a difficult battle, but who knew that the generals of the Sui Dynasty were such stupid wastes.
After Li Yuan occupied Huoyi, he did not rush to march to Chang'an. Instead, he stationed in Huoyi for a few days to let his troops train. Although the fighting intensity was not enough, the rest was still necessary, and this was also for
Allow time for the battle plan after the decision is made.
Yan Ling also spent this period of time thinking carefully about his own path to becoming stronger. In fact, immediately after the Battle of Huoyi, Yan Ling had already seen the changes in his body.
Although there were more people participating in the battle this time, perhaps because the Sui army was defeated too quickly and had low morale, resulting in insufficient fighting intensity, the evil aura generated above the battlefield was only the same as the evil aura generated in the last battle of several thousand people.
The amount is about the same.
The more essence and blood condensed in Yan Ling's body, the stronger his body will be, and the stronger body will allow the essence and blood to bear more power. This is a virtuous cycle, but it will also lead to Yan Ling's seriousness later on.
It became more difficult for Ling to condense blood essence. Just like this time, after a big battle, Yan Ling only condensed one drop of blood essence. Deep in his heart, eight drops of blood essence shone dazzlingly, but there was only one ninth drop.
Blurred shadow.
Compared with Yan Ling's progress in condensing five drops of blood essence in a previous battle, the speed at this time is undoubtedly much slower. Although this speed of progress is already amazing enough, if Du Fuwei were to know Yan Ling's progress in strength at this time,
, I’m afraid I’m going to say hell. But after enjoying the speed of an airplane, when taking a train, the contrast in speed is uncomfortable. This is the case for Yan Ling at this time.
But after all, Yan Ling is not a rookie who has just started practicing. As early as on Earth, Yan Ling has been practicing Xingyiquan for many years. In the last few years, he has been trapped in the cultivation of energy and has not made any progress. This has made Yan Ling long ago.
Yan Ling realized that cultivation is something that requires persistence, and rushing for success will only lead to nothing, so Yan Ling quickly adjusted his mentality.
While Yan Ling was sorting out his cultivation experience, Li Yuan also made a plan for the next march on the advice of Li Shimin and others. First, he crossed Hedong, forcing Qu Tutong, who was holding on to Hedong, to go out of the city to fight in the field. This was Li Shimin and others.
The purpose of man.
After a fight, Li Yuan's army defeated Sang Xianhe, the Hu Yalang general sent by Qu Tutong, putting Qu Tutong at a complete disadvantage. At this time, Li Yuan was not in a hurry to defeat Qu Tutong, but left his troops to hold him back.
Qu Tutong also led the main army to attack Chang'an City.
And Yan Ling was not without gains during the fight. At least the eight drops of essence and blood deep in his heart had absorbed enough evil energy, reaching the limit of how much energy, blood and true energy could be contained at this time, and the ninth drop of essence and blood had also absorbed enough evil energy.
From a blurry shadow, it gradually solidified.
With such gains, Yan Ling followed Li Shimin and became part of Li Yuan's main army, arriving outside Chang'an City, preparing to capture this world-famous city! (To be continued)