Vol 2 Chapter 2455: Li Mu VS Wu Qi (Part 2)
Chapter 2455 Li Mu VS Wu Qi (Part 2)
Chapter 2451: Li Mu VS Wu Qi (Part 2)
“What a good Jiang Shang. He is a very old man. He doesn’t have a good care for his old age. He still dares to wade into this muddy water. I think he is tired of living.”
Gongsun Xuanyuan's eyes were full of anger, and he cursed Jiang Shang through gritted teeth.
Xuanyuan suffered a heavy loss this time, losing nearly 600 cavalry.
You must know that when he defeated Chencang and Sanguan, he only lost a thousand cavalry. Against Bukit's weak army of 4,000, he actually lost 600 cavalry. It was no surprise that it was a defeat.
The loss of 600 cavalry was not a big loss for Xuanyuan who had tens of thousands of cavalry, but this loss was a bit frustrating.
Jiang Shang, a respected veteran, concealed his identity and hid in the Bukit Army to plot against himself. This behavior seemed to him simply shameless.
I didn’t even know that the opponent was Jiang Shang, and I thought that the opponent was Wu Ji. I didn’t pay enough attention to him, and he was calculated by the opponent deliberately and unintentionally. It was strange that he could win.
It’s not that Xuanyuan has never been defeated, nor can he accept defeat, but this kind of failure that was secretly planned by someone is really unpleasant.
Xuanyuan looked at Longxuhu with murderous intent and said bitterly: "Jiang Shang has decided to go against me and the Great Qin. Sooner or later, he will reap the rewards. Since you are Jiang Shang's disciple, you will not surrender to the Great Qin even if you think about it. In this case... "
"I surrender."
Long Xuhu was a bachelor, and he surrendered directly before Xuanyuan finished speaking.
"I knew you wouldn't surrender. Someone pushed him. Wait, you said you surrendered?"
“Well, I surrender.”
Longxuhu nodded his head like garlic, now Xuanyuan would be in trouble.
To surrender so readily, is this really a disciple of Yuqing?
Understood, if you pretend to surrender, you must pretend to surrender.
Xuanyuan sneered: "How dare you play a trick like surrendering with me? Come, push this man out and chop him down."
Longxuhu was startled. Seeing that the other party was serious, he immediately panicked and shouted quickly: "Wait, wait, I didn't pretend to surrender, I really want to surrender to Qin."
Half an hour later.
Xuanyuan still looked suspicious and asked: "You really want to submit to Da Qin, don't you think about it?"
“Do not consider, do not consider.”
Longxuhu replied decisively, looking like he was about to cry without tears.
How pitiful God is, he really wants to surrender, and the reason why he goes against Da Qin is entirely because of his master.
He originally liked Da Qin more, but now he was captured alive and his master allowed him to surrender. It was too late for him to rejoice, so how could he feign surrender?
Besides, with his brain, he can't do such a high-intelligence job as pretending to surrender.
Xuanyuan also felt that even if Jiang Shang really sent someone to fake surrender, it would be impossible to send an honest person like Longxuhu. This kind of person who has everything written on his face would not be able to handle it.
Xuanyuan asked a lot of things from Long Xuhu's mouth. Although he believed that Long Xihu was not faking surrender, he couldn't trust him so quickly, so he decided to lock him up first and wait until the battle was over. arrange.
“Knowing that Li Tang could not save Guanzhong, he still sent his disciples down the mountain to help Tang, and even allowed his disciples to surrender. Do you want to use this to preserve the Taoist tradition?”
At this thought, Xuanyuan couldn't help but flash a hint of ridicule at the corner of his mouth. He didn't know why Taiqing Taoist would make such a decision, but it was obvious that he could solve the problem by just bowing to Da Qin, but he had to take such a big detour. The battlefield is no child's play, and the Qin Dynasty will not show mercy to the Taoist disciples just because they may surrender, so many Taoist disciples will definitely lose their lives on the battlefield of the Qin-Tang war.
"You are really too ungrateful to not regard your disciple's life as your life." Xuanyuan snorted coldly.
Xuanyuan's army belongs to the Western Route Army. There is still a city on his offensive route that has not yet been solved, but it is only a matter of time before the city is broken.
This time he led a thousand cavalry to march straight in. It would be great to win, but unfortunately he lost. Naturally, he had to go back and solve the trouble in the rear first, and then come to Jiang Shang to regain his position.
In this way, except for Wang Jian's troops, the three Qin armies on the west route were all directly or indirectly defeated by Jiang Shang.
However, this failure also made both Xuanyuan and Gongsun Yan realize their shame and become brave again. No matter what enemy they encounter, they will never underestimate their opponents.
After that, it took only three days to occupy all the bases of the Tang army west of Wuzhangyuan, and successfully joined forces at Wuzhangyuan.
However, the three parties had differences regarding the next action.
Wang Jian believed that a direct attack on Chang'an should be carried out. Xuanyuan and Gongsun Yan both believed that because they supported the eastern front and helped Wu Qi to bulldoze Ba Ling, they should first deal with the big threat of Li Mu and Jiang Shang.
Just when the three of them could not come to an agreement, the Grand Governor Li Jing sent a military order, ordering the three of them to attack Chang'an.
It turns out that in these three days, Li Shimin of Chang'an also received news that Li Mu defeated Gongsun Xuanyuan.
Li Shimin was naturally overjoyed about this. He had doubted Li Mu's loyalty before, thinking that Li Mu wanted to surrender to Qin if he did not return to Chang'an. Now that Li Mu had proven his loyalty with actions, he naturally no longer had to doubt Li Mu.
Li Shimin, who was no longer suspicious, returned to his former wiseness.
Although he has decided to defend Chang'an and fight to the end with the Qin army, consuming the Qin army's strength as much as possible, he also knows that an isolated city cannot be defended.
If one more city can be saved, the pressure faced by Chang'an will naturally be lighter.
So, he decided to send reinforcements to Ba Ling so that Li Mu could hold on longer and share the pressure on Chang'an.
But no one was willing to lead the army to support Ba Ling.
Not to mention that Ba Ling's defense was far inferior to that of Chang'an, Li Mu not only had to directly face the Daqin East Road and the Fourth Army, but also Li Jing's 100,000 Central Army following closely behind.
If Li Jing's troops didn't care about Ba Ling and went directly to Chang'an, then the pressure on Li Mu would be smaller. But if they bulldozed Ba Ling first and then attacked Chang'an, wouldn't going to Ba Ling be courting death? Relatively speaking, Chang'an is safer.
The generals of Li and Tang were not stupid. After realizing this, they naturally did not want them to support Ba Ling.
Seeing that no one took the initiative to lead the army, Li Shimin also encountered difficulties. At the critical moment, Li Si recommended Yang Jian to support Ba Ling.
Yang Jian was not suspicious. He did not want Li Shimin to be in trouble, so he decisively accepted the order and led 5,000 troops to leave Chang'an and go to Baling to support Li Mu.
Li Mu's 5,000 troops and horses lost 300.
Li Zuo's chariot sent 5,000 troops and lost 500.
Bukit’s five thousand troops and horses lost 2,500;
In addition to Baling's two thousand defenders and Yang Jian's five thousand elite troops;
In other words, Li Mu's troops now have reached 18,700.
Even if Wu Qi recruited and surrendered a lot of Tang troops, his total strength was only thirteen thousand. He was naturally not afraid of Li Mu in field battles, but it was obviously unrealistic to forcefully attack Baling City with his small number of troops, so he decided to wait for four people on the east road. After the Lu army reunited, they joined forces to attack Ba Ling.
Fifth update of Silver Alliance
(End of this chapter)
