Li Shimin still didn't know that Hou Junji was dead.
Unexpectedly, after inspecting the city wall and the camp at night, Li Shimin, who was preparing to take a rest, suddenly received a report from his own soldiers, saying that someone was attacking the Far Eastern Army camp outside the city at night.
Li Shimin's face suddenly darkened and he quickly ran to the top of the city.
Looking around, the Far Eastern Army camp in the distance outside the city was indeed filled with fierce fighting, and the flames were blazing into the sky. It looked like chaos. At first glance, the people who stole the camp seemed to have succeeded.
However, when Li Shimin saw this scene, especially after looking at it carefully, his heart sank, and he couldn't help cursing: "It's okay for this idiot Yuan Ji to do such a stupid thing, Hou Junji didn't stop him, damn it.
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At this time, a general came to ask for a fight: "Second Master, I am willing to lead ten thousand cavalry out of the city to cooperate with reinforcements to attack the camp."
Li Shimin hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said: "Let's take a look first, don't leave the city rashly."
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At this time, the Far Eastern Army camp seemed to be in chaos from a distance, but in fact, under Xu Shiji's control, there was order within the chaos.
The Wagang Battalion is an elite team that has fought in hundreds of battles. Both generals and ordinary soldiers are extremely experienced in facing this kind of situation. In addition, after more than half a year of training in the Snake Island model, Xu Shiji doesn't even need to say anything at this time, or
Give some instructions and everyone will respond correctly as soon as possible.
What's more, the whole Wagang camp knew that the enemy would attack the camp tonight. If they hadn't put on a show to see if they could draw out the defenders in Hanzhong County, they would have defeated the Li family's army that was attacking at night.
Therefore, from the beginning to the end, Xu Shiji did not pay much attention to Li Yuanji and his party who personally led 20,000 cavalry to attack the camp. Instead, he kept staring at Hanzhong City with binoculars on the watchtower.
There were two cavalrymen behind the hills on both sides of the camp who had not been dispatched, quietly waiting for the Hanzhong City defenders to come out to assist Li Yuanji and his party in stealing the camp.
Unfortunately, Li Shimin did not know whether he had seen through the Far Eastern Army's conspiracy or out of caution, so he never sent a large army to respond.
Seeing that the play could no longer continue, Xu Shiji immediately ordered: "Order the cavalry behind the hills on both sides to pick up the enemy troops and retreat back. The infantry will surround them on three sides. The archers will wait for the opportunity to shoot and kill the enemy. Send this enemy army to Hanzhong County."
I don’t believe that Li Shimin won’t let their people enter the city. After all, he still has his own brother..."
Li Yuanji confidently led 20,000 elite cavalry to attack the camp. At first it seemed that he was indeed caught by surprise, successfully breaking through the front camp of Wagang Camp and rushing all the way to the location of the Chinese army.
But that was all. Everything that followed seemed like a dream. Wagangying's response speed was far beyond Li Yuanji's expectation.
He and his 20,000 cavalrymen had just broken through the last line of resistance from the front camp. First they stepped on a mine, killing one or two thousand people. Their charge had been completely destroyed.
Immediately afterwards, they were entangled by the Wagang Camp cavalry who suddenly appeared out of nowhere and charged and killed them, and then were blocked by a steady stream of infantry.
Seeing that his party was surrounded and about to die here, Li Yuanji suddenly discovered a gap and led his men to fight hard and break out of the encirclement. Only then did they realize that Hanzhong City was directly ahead.
Although Li Yuanji does not want to see Li Shimin under such circumstances, except for Hanzhong City
Outside, they had no way to escape, so they had no choice but to lead the four to five thousand cavalry who were still alive and charge towards Hanzhong City lifelessly.
However, there were tens of thousands of Wagang camp cavalry who clung to Li Yuanji and his party, chasing them all the way. In such a short period of time, Wagang camp organized more than two thousand cavalry to go around to the front of Hanzhong City, blocking them.
their way.
This was an order Xu Shiji had just issued temporarily. He wanted to let Li Shimin see his brother Li Yuanji being surrounded closer to Hanzhong City, forcing Li Shimin to send troops out of the city to respond.
Li Yuanji was indeed a master of martial arts. With his eyes red, he roared repeatedly and swung his knife to strike at a Wagang camp soldier who was blocking the road. With a "pop" the head was raised, and a spurt of blood spurted out two feet high.
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"Second Young Master, Third Young Master are inside, please send troops to respond!" On top of Hanzhong City, a general knelt down and asked Li Shimin for orders.
Li Shimin's face was extremely gloomy, but he still refused to order the city gates to be opened and troops sent out to respond.
Changsun Wuji couldn't help but whispered: "Shimin, if Yuan Ji dies outside the city, and you don't send troops to rescue him, it will be difficult for His Highness the King of Tang to deal with him afterwards."
Li Shimin's expression turned grim and he said: "If I guess correctly, Xu Shiji will be waiting for us to open the city gate. I even have a hunch that as long as we open the city gate and send troops to respond, the Hanzhong City will be destroyed today."
, although I don’t know the specific reason.”
When Changsun Wuji heard this, his expression changed slightly. Although he felt that it might not be appropriate to open the city gate at this time, he did not expect that the matter was so serious.
Others don't know it, but Changsun Wuji knows that Li Shimin has a special ability - he can foresee some dangers in advance and sense them.
It is precisely because of this special ability that Changsun Wuji always believed that Li Shimin was the chosen one. Otherwise, he and Wang Junlin actually had a good relationship back then, so why would he wholeheartedly follow Li Shimin, who was not the eldest son of the King of Tang, to conquer the world.
In the distance, Xu Shiji saw that Li Shimin still refused to open the city and send troops to respond. He sighed secretly, thinking that Li Shimin had refreshed his understanding of him again and again.
Xu Shiji knew that he was able to suppress Li Shimin in Bashu land not because his strategy was better than Li Shimin's, but mainly because he led the Wagang Battalion, the Far East Army.
First of all, the army's combat power itself is much stronger than that of the Li Family Army.
Secondly, Wang Junlin has set the general strategic direction for the Far East Army many years ago: the Far East Army relies half on combat on the battlefield and half on preparations and planning outside the battlefield.
This includes weapons and equipment, intelligence, public sentiment, public opinion and other factors, and the Far East Army did very solid work in these aspects before and during the war.
In comparison, Li Jiajun's awareness in these aspects is much lower, and he even has no awareness at all in some aspects, such as the ideological field.
This does not mean that Li Shimin's mind is weaker than Wang Junlin's. In fact, he is only stronger than Wang Junlin. There is a generation gap of more than a thousand years, and there is Nie Xiaoyu, a super plug-in and cheating device.
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Sometimes people's hearts are really strange. What Li Yuanji hated most at this time was not Xu Shiji, nor the soldiers of the Far East Army who were chasing him, but Li Shimin, who delayed opening the city gate and sent troops to meet him.
But Li Yuanji has no choice now. He is far away
Driven by the Eastern Army, he had only the direction of Hanzhong City to escape. He took his own soldiers and relied on his strong martial arts to fight his way out of the encirclement. He only knew that the Far Eastern Army was pursuing him behind his horse.
I don't know how much time passed, but when he saw that the Hanzhong city gate was less than a hundred steps away, he faintly felt the sound of horse hooves behind him weakening. When he looked back halfway, he saw that of the 20,000 cavalry he had brought, there were only less than 1,000 left.
But at this time, Li Yuanji could no longer care so much. He shouted loudly: "Second brother, open the city gate quickly, open the city gate quickly!"
On top of the city, Li Shimin remained unmoved.
"Second brother, I beg you, please open the city gate quickly..."
"Li Shimin, I brought troops to rescue you, but now you refuse to save me, you beast, are you still a brother?"
On the top of the city, the muscles on Li Shimin's face twitched slightly and his body trembled slightly, but he had no intention of changing his mind and opening the city gate.
He just witnessed the process of the Far East Army chasing Li Yuanji, and he saw very clearly that the Far East Army could clearly kill Li Yuanji and everyone under his leadership, but deliberately did not kill him, and even drove them to the Hanzhong City. This was intentional.
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This also confirmed his premonition just now, so it was even more impossible for him to open the city gate.
"Li Shimin, if you don't open the city gate, I will crash and kill all these people on the city gate today." Li Yuanji's eyes were red and he rushed towards the city gate. The nearly a thousand cavalry who followed him and escaped hesitated for a moment.
, also followed and hit the city gate.
In the rear, a large number of cavalry from the Far Eastern Army also rushed toward the city gate at a distance of about twenty paces.
Witnessing this scene, Li Shimin's expression changed, a flash of determination flashed in his eyes, and he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Whoever dares to rush into the city gate will be shot to death by me."
The soldiers holding bows around them were shaken, but they immediately obeyed Li Shimin's order.
Several arrows fell one after another, and nearly a thousand Li's troops fell off their horses one after another, including Li Yuanji. The wave of cavalry following the Far Eastern Army who was preparing to charge into the city was also forced back.
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Seven days later, Wang Junlin, Nie Xiaoyu and his party took a large ship belonging to the Fanyang Chamber of Commerce, traveled south by sea, entered the inland from the mouth of the Yangtze River, and arrived in Yangzhou.
The weather in Yangzhou was beautiful that day, with no clouds in the sky.
The horns were long and the golden drums were sounding. In the largest Yangtze River port where Yangzhou is located, the senior civil and military officials of the Far Eastern Army in the three counties of Jiangnan, led by Xu Jingzong, Huang Shaoqiu, Pei Shiju, and Yu Shiji, put on brand-new official uniforms and stood solemnly, waiting for the arrival of the king.
advent.
"I will see you, Your Majesty!" Xu Jingzong, Huang Shaoqiu and others pushed the Jinshan Mountain, poured out the jade pillars and bowed to the ground. More than a year ago, Yang Guang was forced to death by Yuwen Zhiji. After the fall of the Sui Dynasty, Pei Shiju and Yu Shiji joined the Far Eastern Army.
When the old officials of the Sui Dynasty followed behind them, they fell to their knees in darkness.
In addition to Nie Xiaoyu, the main senior officials of the Far Eastern Army who came with Wang Junlin include Shen Guoer, the commander-in-chief of the Military Intelligence Office, Yang Kongchan, the head of the Fanyang Chamber of Commerce, and Zhang Tiangang, the commander-in-chief of the special operations team.
At this time, Shen Guoer, Yang Kongchan and Zhang Tiangang, who were following Wang Junlin, hurriedly stepped aside. Only Nie Xiaoyu always stood behind Wang Junlin.
Xu Jingzong, Huang Shaoqiu and other old men from the Far East Army naturally did not dare to have any objections to Nie Xiaoyu's unruly behavior, and even felt a little awe-inspiring in their hearts. They secretly thought that this man on Snake Island had accompanied the prince to Yangzhou in person. It seemed that
The prince is really going to take action against Huainan, Huaibei and Jiangnan.