When taking stock of Ming Taizong at the beginning, Lao Zhu was stunned!

Chapter 72 is already close to running out of ammunition and food!

[Among these three groups of people, the latter two have participated in many battles with the Tang army, and naturally their hearts are attached to the Tang Dynasty. Only the first group, who had just returned from Liu Wuzhou and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, had other small thoughts, and Yu Chijing Virtue is also the first type of person. 】

[Moreover, Liu Wuzhou’s old generals found an opportunity to defect from the Tang army before, and they even secretly wanted to recruit Yuchi Jingde to defect with him]

[However, they were rejected by Yuchi Jingde, but their defection still made many generals within the Tang army quite suspicious of the remaining surrendered generals of Liu Wuzhou. 】

[So they secretly captured these surrendered generals one after another and handed them over to Li Shimin for disposal. 】

[However, Li Shimin thought that if they had the intention to defect, they would have followed the others when they fled. They would already be at the end of the world, so why wait until today! 】

[Subsequently, he personally untied Yuchi Jingde and others and gave them many instructions. However, Yuchi Jingde refused to take over the post and only wanted to follow Li Shimin, and was eventually assigned as a personal guard. 】
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Eastern Han Dynasty, Jian'an period.

Cao Cao seemed to have found a confidant. This Li Shimin was very similar to him. He only valued the other person's talents and not his origin!So what if he is a reduced general?
He also has many surrendered generals, even poor people or tainted talents!

But they were all loyal to him and made great contributions to his conquest!
If you continue to dislike him because of the past, you will really no longer be a son of a man!

The two of them are so similar. They both don't look at vain things and only pay attention to doing practical things!
[As local officials began to backstab members of the royal family and then surrender to the Tang army, more and more people became red-eyed. 】

[Seeing that Wang Shichong was about to be crushed by the Tang army, his own life, glory and wealth obviously came first at this time. 】

[So they all started their own small actions, not asking for much wealth, but at least ensuring that they could still be alive after the Tang army's victory. 】

[And the only way is to help Tang Jun ruthlessly and stab Wang Shichong in the back!The sooner you surrender to the Tang Army, the less likely you are to be liquidated in the future. 】

[Subsequently, Guangzhou to the east of Luoyang also killed Wang Shichong's men in fierce internal fighting, and finally fell into the arms of the Tang Dynasty. The Central Plains to the east was instantly and completely included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty. 】

[At this time, Luoyang almost disappeared from the outside world, and food exchanges were basically cut off. 】

[However, just when they were about to recover, the current Khan of Turks suddenly died suddenly. 】
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Qin Dynasty.

Qin Shihuang was stunned for a moment: What does it have to do with these barbarians?
Later, I realized that during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Northern Turks seemed to be extremely powerful and would have a lot of impact on the situation in the Central Plains. If their current leader died suddenly, there would inevitably be a short period of internal chaos.

But the reason why he didn't think of it immediately was because during his Qin Dynasty, he looked down upon the barbarians outside the Pass. Who would have thought of that?
Later generations can actually affect the ancient Central Plains!
[Faced with Luoyang being besieged, Wang Shichong had no choice but to contact the Turkic Khan during the replacement. In order to save himself, he could only ask Dou Jiande for help. 】

[Dou Jiande never intervened in the battle between Tang Jun and Wang Shichong. He always waited and watched, and finally waited until Wang Shichong asked for help. 】

[Actually, he could hardly hold on anymore, if Wang Shichong never asked him for help. 】

[Can he watch the Tang army completely engulf Luoyang?Obviously not!Otherwise, he himself will become the next target to be eliminated! 】

[The reason why he did not take the initiative was to let Wang Shichong ask for help first, so that he could be suppressed in the future. 】【Therefore, Dou Jiande, who received Wang Shichong's request for help, immediately sent a prepared army to Luoyang to support Wang Shichong. 】

[However, Wang Shichong's power began to collapse with his continuous defeats. 】

[In the fifth year of Wude, he sent his eldest son Wang Xuanying to Hulao Pass, the last nearby place that could supply Luoyang's food. 】

[You must know that Luoyang is close to running out of ammunition and food at this time, so it naturally attaches great importance to this last food supply, and Li Shimin's ability in intelligence work and ability to cut off food and grass is obvious to everyone. 】

[To this end, he sent a large number of troops to cover, but in the end, Li Shimin ambushed and successfully raided in advance. In the end, he intercepted the grain road and beheaded thousands of people, and the grain naturally belonged to the Tang army. 】

[In February of the fifth year of Jiande's reign, Li Shimin had almost completely surrounded Luoyang, but Wang Shichong was still holding on. While waiting for Dou Jiande's reinforcements to arrive, he also planned to give it a last ditch effort. 】

[He sent all the remaining troops in Luoyang City out of the west gate, formed a military formation, and faced off against the Tang army. 】

[Faced with Wang Shichong's dying counterattack, many generals were a little shaken, thinking that they could temporarily avoid the edge and easily capture it when their morale weakened. 】

[However, Li Shimin did not think so.He believed that things would change if it was too late. Moreover, this was the last time Wang Shichong mustered up the courage. If he could win a big victory this time, the enemy army would completely decline and disintegrate automatically. When the Tang army took Luoyang, it would be smoother. 】

[So the Tang army sent a large number of troops to attack the military formation head-on. Afterwards, Li Shimin ordered to fight for a period of time and then retreat again. Then he would release smoke and he would lead the cavalry to charge from the side. 】

[However, Li Shimin, who took the lead in charging into the military formation as usual, was invincible all the way, but something unexpected happened to him despite having no enemy. 】

[Although some complex terrains do not have much impact on individual cavalry, they cause the entire cavalry to charge.The distance between them continued to shrink, and the distance between cavalry and cavalry increased. 】

[Li Shimin led the way. When facing the enemy, he only had a few cavalry accompanying him, and most of the cavalry had not yet followed.]

[At this time, the situation became increasingly critical. Li Shimin's mount was hit by the opponent's arrow. Then Yuchi Jingde, who was beside him, hurriedly gave up his mount to Li Shimin, dismounted himself, and began to engage in close combat with the enemy, while covering Li Shimin to break out of the encirclement. 】

[After changing horses, Li Shimin succeeded in taking a position in the chaos and left the chaotic battlefield. 】

[However, based on Li Shimin’s previous performance, will he leave like this? 】

[Obviously impossible. After breaking out of the chaotic formation, he chose to return to the enemy formation and continue to charge back and forth. 】

[Wang Shichong's army also knew that this was their last resistance. Therefore, even though the Tang army's cavalry continued to charge, they never broke up. 】

[This battle lasted for a whole morning before Wang Shichong's army retreated. 】

(End of this chapter)