A year later, Chang'an City ran out of food. If the defenders did not want to starve to death, they would naturally surrender. Even Li Shimin would not be able to stop it by then.
In fact, Wang Junlin also knew that Li Shimin could not wait for a year because there were still more than 600,000 people in Chang'an City.
At the top of Chang'an City, when Li Shimin saw Wang Junlin and his people starting to build a wall outside the city, he already understood what Wang Junlin meant. His face turned extremely ugly, and his heart was filled with despair.
Li Shimin was actually lucky. This luck not only came from the 30,000 Huzhao warriors led by Xiao Yu who were hidden in the mountains of Qinling Mountains, but also because of his confidence in holding on to the city of Chang'an.
Li Shimin carefully calculated that as long as he defended Chang'an City for a year, Da'an's army would lose at least 200,000 people. Moreover, as time went by, the morale of Da'an's army would inevitably decline and their morale would be shaken due to heavy losses.
By that time, with Xiao Yu's support, he had a chance to lead his army out of the city and turn defeat into victory.
However, Wang Junlin didn't give him any chance at all and directly adopted the safest tactic - building a wall!
Li Shimin was naturally unwilling to give in, so out of despair, he immediately took the most correct reaction at the moment - he directly ordered 300,000 troops to leave the city and engage in a field battle with 200,000 troops outside Da'anguo City.
This field battle is of course also a decisive battle.
"Such decisiveness and courage... you are worthy of Li Shimin." Wang Junlin, Li Jing, Qin Qiong, Du Ruhui, Xu Shiji and others in the imperial tent of the Da'an Kingdom camp outside Chang'an City heard that the Tang army began to leave the city in an orderly manner. Wang Junlin was a little emotional.
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Wang Junlin and others had naturally expected Li Shimin's reaction, but Li Shimin's decision on the day he built the wall was somewhat beyond Wang Junlin and others' expectations.
"In that case, let's make Li Shimin despair in a huge field battle!" Wang Junlin actually didn't want to spend a year unless he was forced to do so.
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In the third year of Tianxiang's reign in the Da'an Kingdom, on November 21st, it was cloudy in Jingzhao Prefecture.
On the vast Qinling Plain south of Chang'an City, the two sides' armies totaling 500,000 troops began to arrange their troops about two miles apart.
On the Da'an side, legions and cavalry formations were arranged neatly and with bright flags.
The positions of large trebuchets, giant crossbows, hundred-fire crossbows and other long-range attack weapons are quite organized and particular.
Wang Junlin was wearing a special military uniform and was sitting on a high command podium. Li Jing, Du Ruhui, Qin Qiong, Xu Shiji, Luo Shixin, Cheng Yaojin, Pei Yuanqing and other generals gathered to surround him in the center.
Two or three miles away on the opposite side, the Tang army was mainly commanded by Li Shimin himself, with General Chai Shao as his deputy, and Chang Sun Wuji acting as chief of staff.
The men and horses of the Tang Dynasty have also been assembled, and the army is ready. Looking from a distance, they can see people shouting and horses neighing, as strong as mountains, flags and flags blocking the sun, and swords shining coldly. They are indeed the last elite of Li Shimin. They can be said to have strong soldiers and strong horses, but their morale is a bit weak.
low.
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"Li Jing, I am just a spectator in this field battle of the army, and you will command the battle. According to the plan we made before, we will defeat the enemy in one battle and make Li Shimin frightened." Wang Junlin knew very well that although he was old enough to fight,
Commanding 200,000 troops against 300,000 enemy troops, the scale of the battle was definitely incomparable to Li Jing's.
"I obey the decree!"
Amidst the sound of war drums and the fluttering of military flags, Li Jing began to mobilize his troops and generals. The army began to slowly mobilize according to the instructions of the trumpeters and flag bearers beside Li Jing of the Chinese Army.
Opposite, Li Shimin was sitting on his horse, with a big flag behind him, looking solemnly at the formation slowly unfolding opposite.
Li Shimin glanced at the generals and said slowly: "We have 300,000 troops, and the opponent only has 200,000. Moreover, I have already sent an order to Xiao Yu, and I will fight out at the critical moment to settle the matter. Therefore, in this battle,
As long as we block the enemy's first powerful offensive, we will definitely dampen their spirit, and then defeat them with our superior strength. By that time, we will not only be able to defend Chang'an City, but also be able to completely reverse the situation of the war, defeat the Da'an Kingdom, and restore our
The territory of the Tang Dynasty."
When all the generals of the Tang Dynasty, who looked very solemn, heard the words, they all became energetic, with some confidence in their eyes, and their fighting spirit also increased a lot, because what Li Shimin said was indeed reasonable.
Although Li Shimin said this, he actually had no confidence at all in his heart. He secretly asked Puppet No. 1 next to him: "National Master, Xiao Yu's side has sent 30,000 war horses a few days ago! Don't let any surprises happen.
That’s good.”
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, 30,000 war horses have been secretly sent over in batches." Puppet No. 1 said: "Xiao Yu is both civil and military and is quite capable, and the great shaman of the Huzhao tribe named Tiangu is also a supernatural being with great magical powers.
People, with the two of them commanding 30,000 elite soldiers, there should be no accidents."
Next to him, Chai Shao's heart dropped a lot, and he said: "It's best to do this. Later, when the two armies fight and get tired, Xiao Yu's army will suddenly come out, which will have a miraculous effect."
Li Shimin thought for a moment, frowned slightly, feeling a little uneasy in his heart, but at this point, he had no choice, and some things were beyond his control.
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"Dong dong dong..."
War drums roared and horns sounded. Da'an's infantry units were divided into battalions under the corps, and spear phalanxes were already deployed one by one.
The cavalry also uses battalions under the legion as combat units. They wear black steel plate armor, hold a quick crossbow in their left hand, and a long spear with a flat-end steel spearhead in their right hand.
Other long-range attack weapons such as trebuchets, giant crossbows, and hundred-fire crossbows were interspersed in the gaps between the infantry squares, and their respective firing positions had been set up. They looked chaotic, but were actually orderly.
Although the armies of both sides have not all been deployed on the frontal battlefield, the number of troops in front of each side will not be less than 100,000, with over 10,000 troops and horses, boundless, let alone an army of 100,000.
The ground trembled, the sound of hooves thundered, the sound of killing rose into the sky, and smoke filled the air. Cavalry and cavalry, and infantry and cavalry on both sides collided fiercely, causing people to flip over, and thousands of people were killed or injured in an instant...
Li Jing and Li Shimin tried their best to mobilize their troops, and soon they all launched an attack on the opponent's flank army, and a full-scale melee began...
Li Jing and Li Shimin were in charge of the central army, and they continued to invest troops. The battle group became stronger and stronger. Looking down from the top of the mountain, the Qinling Plain south of Chang'an City was full of rampaging soldiers and horses, killing the sky and the earth, and the sun and the moon were dimmed.
Almost all the troops from both sides have been invested in it.
The constant slashing and fighting made the armies of both sides extremely exhausted. Although the strength of Da'an's army was less than 100,000, it had excellent armor and weapons, powerful battle formations, and the army's combat power was obviously strong.
However, because the Tang army also had grenades and projectile explosive packets.
Therefore, at the beginning, Da'an's side only had a vague upper hand.
Li Shimin has worked hard to train his troops in the past few years, and he has a high prestige among his soldiers. Now that he is personally commanding the army, the Tang army is very resilient. At least for now, it seems that it can still hold on for a long time.
At this moment, smoke and dust suddenly rose on the horizon from the direction of Zhongnan Mountain in the Qinling Mountains, and soon 30,000 cavalry rolled in like a violent storm. Each of the knights on the war horse was tall and burly.
The battle between the two armies was in full swing, and a sudden attack of strange soldiers surprised everyone.
The big flag was waving with the two characters "Datang" written on it, so the soldiers of the Tang Army suddenly burst into an overwhelming cheer, and their "reinforcements" had arrived!
Li Shimin was also ecstatic.
However, Li Shimin's expression soon changed again, and so did the expressions of all the Tang soldiers.
This large army holding the flag of the Tang Dynasty suddenly turned around halfway and rushed towards the flank of their Tang army.
When Li Shimin realized something was wrong and mobilized the 20,000 soldiers around him that he had never used to intercept, it was already too late.
The Tengu led 30,000 troops and suddenly charged in from the side of the Tang army. Not only did it completely disrupt the Tang army's camp, it also dealt a fatal blow to the morale of the Tang army.
Li Shimin's heart was bleeding, and he didn't care to think too much about whether Xiao Yu betrayed him or whether Xiao Yu was also tricked by Wang Junlin's people.
He had been worried that the 30,000 horses brought by Xiao Yu would be discovered by Da'an's spies, and there were people to intercept them in advance, but he never thought that these 30,000 horses were Wang Junlin's people from the very beginning.
He had been waiting for a glimmer of hope, but he didn't want to stab him in the back at the most critical moment.
Being attacked from both sides and stabbed from behind by "friendly troops", the Tang army soldiers who fought desperately in the front were quickly affected, and their defeat began to appear, and soon it turned into a situation of overwhelming defeat.
If from the very beginning, the 30,000 Huzhao troops brought by Tengu had directly joined the Da'an army, they would not have been enough to cause the Tang army to be defeated so quickly. However, the timing of the appearance of these 30,000 troops was too timely.
Plunged into the side formation of the Tang army.
Not to mention the Tang Army, even if the Tang Army and the Da'an Army were exchanged, the result would still be a crushing defeat.
Although I feel desperate,
After all, Li Shimin is the son of destiny. God has given him the strongest will. He will not give up until the last moment.
Therefore, he has been doing his best to save the defeat, or to organize a retreat as much as possible to allow more troops to escape into Chang'an City.
Of course Li Jing knew that the 30,000 men who suddenly came out were from his own side. Seeing that these 30,000 men had indeed lived up to His Majesty's expectations and appeared at the most critical moment, he had already given the order to wave the flag and order the whole army at the first opportunity.
Cover up.
The chief generals of each legion rushed forward with their troops. No matter how elite the Tang army was before, under this situation, it had turned into a ragtag group with their backs left to the enemy and everyone was just trying to escape.
This chase was over in less than an hour because the Tang army was followed by Chang'an City.
Li Shimin's personal charisma is indeed powerful. Under such circumstances, there are still generals willing to lead the retreat and cover the retreat of the main force.
The final result was that most of the more than 300,000 Tang troops were killed or wounded, and only about 100,000 Tang troops followed Li Shimin and fled back to Chang'an City.
At the last moment, Li Shimin ordered without hesitation to shoot a wave of his own men to death, opened a vacuum zone, and then closed the city gate tightly, blocking tens of thousands of his own men from outside the city.
The Tang army outside the city quickly surrendered because the city gate had been closed.
But even so, corpses were still everywhere outside Chang'an City, and screams filled the sky.
After the battle, Da'an's army besieged the city again, and Li Shimin led the Tang army to continue to defend the city.
However, not to mention that the defenders increased from 300,000 to about 100,000, the Tang army's last bit of morale and morale had been exhausted in this battle.
The most important thing is that Li Shimin's last hope was shattered.
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There were only 100,000 defenders left, and their morale was low. Chang'an City's defense capabilities had dropped significantly. However, due to some reasons, Wang Junlin still did not order an attack on the city. Instead, he gave an order to start building walls again outside Chang'an City.
The next day, Li Shimin sent an envoy, Changsun Wuji, to see Wang Junlin.
Changsun Wuji has been exhausted physically and mentally in the past few months. His pride since he was a child has been completely beaten, and his long-held belief that Li Shimin is the right son has also been shaken. This undoubtedly breaks his belief.
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The most important thing is that he is extremely regretful!
You must know that he had a good relationship with Wang Junlin, and he knew Wang Junlin earlier than almost all the important officials of the Da'an Kingdom. Unfortunately, when he met Li Shimin, he believed that the latter was his true destiny.
The mental torture caused by such regret to Changsun Wuji made him feel as if he had aged more than ten years in just one or two months. He was originally in his prime, but he had already become a little old.
"Come here, give a seat to Prime Minister Changsun." Wang Junlin's eyes were like lightning, and he glanced at Changsun Wuji lightly. The latter was involuntarily shocked. Wang Junlin nodded secretly. The look he just gave was not simple. Even if Changsun Wuji
Even in this current state, he has not been affected much. He is worthy of being the greatest hero of the Tang Dynasty in history and has been famous throughout the ages. His will is really strong.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Changsun Wuji suppressed the fear caused by Wang Junlin's glance just now and sat down.
"How have Prime Minister Changsun been doing these past few years?" Wang Junlin asked casually.
Changsun Wuji smiled bitterly and said: "Wuji regrets not following His Majesty back then."
This is an obvious expression of loyalty to Wang Junlin. It is impossible for Li Shimin not to have thought of this - it is difficult for a top-notch person like Changsun Wuji to have the idea of foolish loyalty to any emperor, even if this person is Li Shimin
No. And Changsun Wuji and Wang Junlin had a good relationship back then.
But Li Shimin still sent Changsun Wuji over.
After Wang Junlin thought for a while, he understood Li Shimin's meaning and said with a smile: "Wuji, Li Shimin wants to find a way to make a living, and you can be regarded as a gift from him to me."
If someone said it was a gift before the war between the two countries, even if it was Wang Junlin who said it, Changsun Wuji would feel extremely humiliated.
But now he obviously knew what Li Shimin meant, and he could only smile bitterly, nod his head and said: "Your Majesty's eyes are as bright as a torch."
Wang Junlin sighed and said with some emotion: "It would be a pity if people like Li Shimin died in my hands."
After a pause, Wang Junlin said again: "Let's do this! Wuji went back to Chang'an City and told Li Shimin that I wanted to meet him alone to talk about something."