The name of Jingyang's central abdomen. Li Chongjiu rushed his troops north from the east of Chang'an. The purpose was obviously to manage the surrounding areas of Chang'an, pull out several cities near Chang'an, annihilate the living forces of the Tang army, and then return to the army to attack Chang'an.

In Li Chongjiu's statement, attacking Chang'an is like cutting wood, first removing its branches and leaves, then cutting down its trunks, and gradually progressing.

Otherwise, the situation would not be very clear now, and Zhao's army rashly attacked Chang'an. In a few days, when Li Shimin's main Tang army rushed back to Chang'an from Fufeng, Li Chongjiu was facing the danger of being at the city and being attacked by the enemy from both sides. At that time, Chang'an could not be captured, and it would not be easy to retreat from the besieged city. That would be called passive.

After Li Chongjiu led his army northward, the defenders in Chang'an City did not dare to send troops to pursue him without authorization when facing the Zhao army retreating from under his nose. Wugunai and Xue Wanjun won a great victory in one battle, defeating the few Tang army field corps in Chang'an City.

The Tang generals in the city had lost the courage to go out to fight, so Fang Xuanling, who was in Chang'an, saw that the Zhao army advanced north and only dared to send more than a hundred cavalrymen to follow him more than ten miles away from the Zhao army's guards. At the same time, Fang Xuanling was in a hurry to the 100,000 main forces of the Tang army led by Li Shimin who was rushing from Fufeng.

Fang Xuanling wrote in the letter that the Zhao bandits wanted to seize the granary in the north of Chang'an. Even if this place cannot be defended, it cannot be supported by the enemy. Your Majesty must not surrender Jingyang.

Now near Jingyang, Li Chongjiu's main army is rushing forward.

Jingyang City is famous for flowing through the Jing River. At that time, the Korean craftsman Zheng Guo was the Jing River, two tributaries of the Wei River, and the Beiluo River. It was introduced into the Zheng Kingdom canal built. It irrigated 40,000 hectares of fields, becoming the first water conservancy project in Guanzhong.

After Li Chongjiu personally led a large army to leave Chang'an, he went north from the Wei River and came to the Jing River. The Wei River saw along the way clear. The Jing River was muddy and the two rivers converged, one muddy and one clear. This is also the origin of the clear allusion between Jingwei. But in fact, because of the existence of Zheng State Canal, the Jing River is surrounded by the main grain field irrigation area in Chang'an. There is a folk saying in Chang'an that a stone of Jing River, several buckets of mud, and irrigate. I grow my wheat and millet. I eat and wear food and clothing, and the mouths of billions of dollars.

Li Chongjiu led his army to Jingyang, and for the purpose of slaughtering, he seized the granary in the north of Chang'an and supplied food and fodder to the Tang army on the front line.

Xue Wanche, the general who was ordered to attack Jingyang, also knew the principle of eating the enemy for one bench and being twenty benches. So he knew the importance of this battle in Jingyang to the next battle in Chang'an.

Under Jingyang City, Xue Wanche had 30,000 troops surrounded the city. Xue Wanche also knew that Li Shimin was leading the army day and night to reinforce Jingyang City. Therefore, facing Jingyang City, he had to seize it before Li Shimin's reinforcements arrived.

The garrison of Jingyang City was the Tang army general Wang Ren. In front of him, Jingyang City was three miles and twenty steps in a circumference. The city wall was seven feet wide and three feet high.

After arriving at the city, Xue Wanche ordered all his troops in the tent. Then he ordered the soldiers in the army to put out baskets of gold and place them on the ground. When did the soldiers see so much gold, they all looked straight.

Xue Wanche first clasped his fists to the soldiers and said, "Brothers. Li Shimin said that he had defeated the 200,000 troops on our west road. He was bragging. The first one didn't believe it. If it was true, I would cut his head to him."

When Xue Wanche said this, all the soldiers laughed. The army also did not believe it. Wang Junkuo was famous in the north of the desert. Li Shimin defeated him in a battle, and the soldiers in the army also thought that Li Shimin was bragging.

Xue Wanche paused and said, "This is a thousand taels of gold, which is the result of a certain war for many years, his majesty, and his daily salary. It is all here now. I will share it for the brothers."

"You keep the gold of General, and we will take the city for you tomorrow." Everyone said one after another.

"Hmph, why are you polite to me? Take it and capture Jingyang City. Your Majesty will reward you. I will also use the money to reward you. In the battle tomorrow, you can only succeed and not fail!"

After hearing what Xue Wanche said, the soldiers all looked excited.

Before the Battle of Jingyang, Xue Wanche dispersed all his wealth and inspired the army.

The next day, Xue Wanche led an army of 30,000 to attack Jingyang City from both north and south.

The Tang general Wang Renshi, who was defending the city, had never seen such a fierce offensive. The charge of the Zhao army under the city was like a huge wave following each other, making the defenders breathless at all.

The soldiers of the Zhao army who were sieging the city were even more afraid of death and fought with the Tang army on every city.

The fierce battle lasted from sunrise until noon, and from noon to night.

At night, the Zhao army's offensive was not exhausted, and Xue Wanche ordered people to light the lights to shine on the city and continue to attack. The Tang army in the city was also very tenacious. Before they defended the city, Li Shimin sent a messenger to break into the city before the Zhao army surrounded him and told the defenders to defend to the death no matter what. Therefore, the defenders would not retreat.

Seeing that the Tang army was tenacious and could not be taken down for a while, Xue Wanche also changed his tactics and divided his troops into five routes. Every two hours, he sent one team to attack the other four routes. Ten hours later, the five teams all went out to attack the fourth gate. The Tang army on the city was fighting fiercely for two days and one night, almost without eye contact, and was exhausted to death.

Xue Wanche pressed his sword to supervise the battle under the city. At this time, the information came. Li Shimin had led reinforcements to a place less than fifty miles away from Jingyang.

Li Chongjiu ordered Zhang Xuansu to ride a horse to Xue Wanche's army to pass an order, and he would not interfere in the battle of siege. Whether the army will continue to attack the city or retreat is up to Xue Wanche himself.

Xue Wanche couldn't help it at the moment, and he personally held the sword and led more than a hundred personal guards to the city to attack!

Even the chief general Xue Wanche was dispatched, and the morale of the Wuwei Army who was sieging the city was high. In the middle of the night, a black smoke fire suddenly lit in the city. It turned out that the Tang army general Wang Renshi knew that the city could not be defended, so he ordered his soldiers to pour fuel and burn military rations.

A moment later, the south of the city was captured.

Qin Qiong, the general under Xue Wanche, personally led 300 cavalrymen to seize the road and into the city, and went to the granary to seize grain.

Qin Qiong fought with the Tang general Wang Renshi, and personally killed the other party on the horse, led his troops to put out the fire and rescue the military rations. Seven or eight out of ten were stolen from the city. The sporadic fierce battles in the city lasted until dawn, and all the three thousand Tang troops and five thousand civilians in Jingyang City were annihilated by the Zhao army.

In the early morning, cavalrymen arrived in the west in a row. The leading general was Zhang Shigui, the chief officer of the Tang army's cavalry, and the 300 cavalry under his command.

Zhang Shigui pulled his horse on the edge of the Jing River, watching the black smoke in Jingyang City rushed straight into the sky, knowing that he was one step late, Jingyang City was still being captured by the Zhao army. Zhang Shigui looked at it for a long time and sighed with regret.

Then smoke and dust rolled behind him, General Qu Tutong, General Changsun Wuji led 10,000 elite troops from the Tang army to arrive. Seeing that Jingyang City was broken, he led his army to retreat and set up camp for several miles.

A day later, Li Shimin led the main force of the Tang army who had returned from Hexi to station in Liquan County west of Jingyang.

Suddenly, the Jingshui River and the Wei River were on both sides, and more than 200,000 troops from the Tang and Zhao armies gathered, and a war was about to break out. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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