The Passionate Guns of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 761 Chasing down Tang Gaozu (1)

"What? Xianyang has fallen? How is this possible?" Li Yuan couldn't believe his ears, and he almost fell off his horse in shock after hearing the small school's report.

Just now he was still complaining in his heart, his men and horses were so close to the city, and there were still pursuers behind, why the men and horses in the city hadn't moved yet?It's all under your noses, don't the city know about it?There is nothing better than saving someone, why don't you send troops out of the city to meet him? Don't you have to wait for my will to fail?
Only now did Li Yuan fully understand the reason, so he hurriedly asked Xiaobao Xiaoxiao how Xianyang fell.The small school did not dare to hide it, but told the truth.

It turned out that when Li Yuan's men fought fiercely with Shan Xiongxin's men in Gaoqiao Town, the guard of Xianyang got a report. According to Li Yuan's will, he led eight thousand elite soldiers to garrison Xianyang.

Li Yuan lost Daxing City and retreated to Gaoqiao Town. When he met the stubborn resistance of the rebels, Yu Gao was astonished when he heard the report. Then he left a commander with [-] soldiers to defend the city. He personally ordered [-] elite soldiers Go out of the city and go to Gaoqiao Town to rescue him.

Halfway through the journey, the battle report came, and a rebel army took advantage of the emptiness to attack Xianyang.Yu Gao was shocked when he heard this, and he didn't dare to go to Gaoqiao Town to rescue him. Although he knew that there was nothing better than rescuing him, but Xianyang was his garrison. He hadn't received any orders to come and rescue him.

Therefore, after Yu Gao ordered the change of the former team, he returned with the 5000 troops. When he arrived in Xianyang, the rebel army had already entered the city, and the two sides were fighting fiercely.Yu Gao then rushed in with 5000 men, trying to attack the defenders in the city back and forth to drive out the rebel army.

But he made a mistake. This rebel army is not easy to deal with. Although the strength of the two sides is basically the same, the leader of this rebel army is Luo Song. , Luo Song ranked first, and Yu Gao was far worse than him.

As a result, there was a melee in the city. Except for more than 1000 prisoners of the eight thousand Tang troops, the rest were all eliminated by Yi.

After listening to the small school's report, Li Yuan was a little dumbfounded. Half an hour ago, Yang Yong suddenly led his troops to Gaoqiao Town, which surprised Li Yuan.Now Li Yuan fled to the city of Xianyang with the remnants of the defeated generals, and Yang Yong's men chased after him. Li Yuan was even more surprised that such a powerful Li Shentong led his troops to stop Yang Yong, but it didn't have much effect.However, this was nothing. What surprised Li Yuan the most was that he thought he was home and could sit back and relax, but unexpectedly Xianyang fell again. The shock can be imagined.

At this time, not only Li Yuan was shocked, but also Duan Zhixuan, Chai Shao, Yin Kaishan and other generals were shocked. They were not only surprised by Yang Yong's speed, but also by Yang Yong's strategy.

Li Yuan, who is a famous military strategist in history, and the three veteran generals of Lingyan Pavilion, were shocked, but after thinking about it, it is not difficult for them to imagine that Yang Yong did not just send a group of troops to chase and kill them this time. , most likely to lay a net for them.

Now Li Yuan feels that he has made a mistake. He knows that the reason why Yang Yong's soldiers are so fast is because he has been delayed in Gaoqiao Town for too long. In order to eat Shan Xiongxin's [-] soldiers, he still wants to recruit one. Such a tiger general ended up in a scuffle, and the three thousand soldiers were eaten, but Shan Xiongxin refused to surrender. At the critical moment, Yang Yong led his men and horses to kill him, and Shan Xiongxin was saved. Only one of Yang Yong's military medical officers was captured. An Daoquan.

And he lost even more, the most important thing is that he lost the chance to successfully retreat to Xianyang.The loss of Xianyang is no small matter. It is not just as simple as losing a city. Xianyang is a vital strategic stronghold of the Tang army. Its strategic position is second only to Daxing City. It means that his imperial conquest has completely failed.

Without Li Jing by his side, and without the counselors such as Xu Maogong and Wei Zheng, Yang Yong could bring him down by himself. He couldn't imagine, is this still the cowardly and incompetent prince Yang Yong?
For the first time, Li Yuan felt the strength and fear of his opponent. He even thought that Shan Xiongxin's 3000 troops were deliberately baited by Yang Yong on Gaoqiao.The reason why Yang Yong spread bait in this way was to use these 3000 troops to hold back the Tang army and win opportunities for him to mobilize troops and condemn generals.

Underestimating the opponent is tantamount to digging his own grave. Li Yuan now realizes that it was a mistake to listen to the words of his precious daughter Li Xiuning that the imperial conquest was a mistake.

But it was useless to regret, and now all he could do was to return to his Bingzhou safely.

Now he still has two strongholds, one is Tongchuan and the other is Weinan, which are also his two retreats.But Weinan has only [-] soldiers and horses, and it is still east of Daxing City. Li Yuan is now near Xianyang, which is west of Daxing City. , this tiny county fell into the hands of the rebels.Since Yang Yong thought of capturing Xianyang, he certainly would not ignore Weinan.

So now there is only Tongchuan as the only way to retreat. However, to retreat from Xianyang to Tongchuan, the small county of Sanyuan must pass through, but there is only a thousand commander and his subordinates stationed here. In other words, there are only a thousand soldiers and horses here.If Yang Yong sends people to take this place again, he will really be a turtle in the urn.

Then some people may ask, since Weinan, Sanyuan, and Tongchuan are strategically important places for the Tang army, why are there only so few Tang army soldiers stationed there?Even such a big city, Xianyang, has only [-] Tang troops stationed there. Could it be that Li Yuan knows how to use troops?
No!Because Li Yuan didn't bring many soldiers and horses with him this time, and the National University was empty. After preparing for many days, he only collected 20 people in total. 20 is not a small number. Centaur is a bit disgraceful.Moreover, it was still a lonely army, and every time a state and county was captured along the way, more or less troops had to be stationed.Therefore, he fought from Fenshui, Shanxi to Daxing City, Shaanxi, and his troops were severely depleted along the way.Coupled with the fact that elite soldiers and strong generals were sent in front to charge into the formation and seize the city, there were not many defensive soldiers sent to the cities that had been taken down. In a word, it was due to the lack of troops of the Tang army.

There are fewer Tang troops in front of him, Li Xiuning is defeated, Daxing City is lost, and Xianyang is lost again. After these battles, big and small, Li Yuan can estimate the number of troops around him without counting the troops. Forty thousand should not be much more .In addition to the 20 soldiers of the Tang army deployed in the states and counties along the way, the remaining troops are now only [-] to [-].

Li Yuan didn't know whether this group of people could keep him back to Bingzhou safely.But what we have to do now is to quickly retreat to Sanyuan, go north to Tongchuan, go to Puzhou, cross Fenshui, and then we will be safe.

After Li Yuan and the generals clarified these, they ordered the soldiers and horses to throw away their luggage, advance lightly, and quickly retreat towards Sanyuan.

At this time, Yang Yong's cavalry vanguard had already entered the Tang army, Yang Yong was still the same as usual, he stepped into the formation first, brandished his big spear and took the lead, like a tiger entering a herd of sheep, there was no general in his path.

Just when he was ready to kill, Yang Yong saw Li Yuan in the crowd at a glance. Yang Yong was excited and shouted: "Li Yuan, where are you going!" A big gun drove away the Tang Jun in front of him, and the leopard in the snow on his crotch was like a string The arrow rushed towards Li Yuan.

(End of this chapter)