Chapter 765 Intimidating Chang'an City
The Dahua army counterattacked and targeted the Liang army camp. Because the Liang army was the worst in terms of strength, military discipline, and combat effectiveness. Concentrating superior forces and attacking this camp would be unstoppable and would be severely damaged at once.
The Liang army in the camp never expected that Dahua would suddenly counterattack for a month without any signs in advance.
At night, the granary in Liang's camp was blown up, which made the Liang army's morale low and the deserters continued. As soon as the morning lights up, it launched a charge.
Qin Qiong and Xue Wanren inserted into the camp on both sides, like two sharp knives deeply inserted into the enemy's key points.
Many Liang soldiers did not sleep well all night, and many of them were still sleepy in the morning. Because they were used to being lazy, they were all mobs. This group of Liang soldiers entered a defensive state. It took a lot of effort. The soldiers in the rear camp were ready to wear their armor, and the camp in front had been broken by the iron cavalry. Then, the team of ten Dahua cavalrymen joined together, and they were like waves of huge waves, rolling up.
"Swish swish swish!"
Arrows flew together, and the swords and spears arrived. The rumbling cavalry that was passing by with lightning, greeted them without any pity.
"Puff puff puff--"
For a moment, my head flew and my waist was broken, my limbs and my arms were broken, and blood was covered all over the floor.
According to Luo Zhaoyun's method of setting up the cavalry, the iron cavalry will rush to the camp without having to stop fighting fiercely, and the speed advantage will be gone and the cavalry's greatest strengths, mobility and inertia will not be used.
So, these waves of cavalry did not stop and whistled by in the battle. Then, another wave of cavalry came, and it was like thunder.
It seemed as if there were continuous cavalry rushing into the camp, and the Liang army could not stop it. Soon, from beginning to end, the entire camp was cut open and penetrated through, forming a one-sided bloody massacre.
Half an hour later, several waves of iron cavalry waves, and after fiercely rolled over, the entire Liang army camp could no longer see the defenders. They either fled or were killed. Even the surrendered people had to evacuate immediately, gather on both sides, waiting to be guarded, otherwise they would be stepped into meat cakes by the iron cavalry.
"Boom!"
The last wave of iron cavalry was still rumbled by. After this wave, the dust gradually fell, but the Liang army camp was no longer in shape, scattered and damaged, and even the corpse turned into meat paste.
When the Turkic cavalry came to rescue him, they had no intention of fighting again in the face of tens of thousands of Dahua cavalry and the scene of Liang's defeat, and immediately withdrew because the Turkics were ambushed by thunder while they arrived, and thousands of people were killed or injured. Their spirit was gone long ago. Seeing the same number of cavalry, they had no confidence to fight again and did not want to die in vain.
At this moment, the Turks knew very well that the Allies and the great defeats were no longer necessary to continue fighting, because the arrival of Dahua reinforcements, the 100,000 troops were equivalent to the number of their three-way Allied forces. At present, the Liang army camp was swept away, and its troops were sharply reduced, and they had no fighting spirit.
The Turks came and went quickly, and fled wildly. They had no time to return to the camp, so they retreated directly and fled northward to the Shuofang area, leaving the Central Plains.
After Qin Qiong and Xue Wanren led their cavalry to pursue Baili, they blocked thousands of people and did not pursue them again. Instead, they turned around and chased the Tang army.
After Yin Kaishan learned that the Liang army camp was torn apart and the Turks fled north, they knew they were not good, so they immediately ordered their evacuation and fled to Guancheng in Jingzhao County.
Qu Tutong and representatives intercepted, coupled with the pursuit of cavalry, Yin Kaishan led his troops to Shangyi City in Jingzhao County, where there were 8,000 guards, and he led two thousand remaining soldiers, so he was killed and injured Shangyi.
Luo Zhaoyun took the opportunity to advance eastward, first sweeping the Beidi County, and then no longer cared about the Liang Kingdom and the Turks in the north, turned around and attacked Jingzhao County from the northwest.
At present, the Tang Dynasty's troops are concentrated in the west, with 60,000 to 70,000 people commanded by Zhang Zhenzhou to fight against Lai Hu'er and Hou Junji's troops, and they cannot be drawn out.
Therefore, the troops of Commander Luo Zhaoyun rushed in and attacked Shangyi City. There were only 10,000 defenders in the city. In addition, the Dahua army had black gunpowder. If a city gate was blown up at night, it would be possible to easily break through the pass and take down the small city.
Yin Kaishan could not resist and continued to flee south with thousands of remaining soldiers.
Luo Zhaoyun was not polite and commanded a 100,000 army, avoided the main force of the Tang army, and directly rushed to Chang'an City from the northwest of Jingzhao County.
When the news of the three coalition forces defeated in Beidi County came back to Chang'an, the city immediately discussed heated up.
"A miracle, Dahua defeated the three coalition forces on his own, with more than 200,000 heavy troops, and there were very few left in a month."
"I heard that in Beidi County, blood flowed into a river, and the soldiers and horses of the four countries fought, and tens of thousands of people died every day. Finally, Dahua reinforcements arrived and won."
"The young commander Luo Cheng personally brought a hundred thousand troops to Chang'an."
"What young marshal? When did this? Luo Cheng, the emperor of Dahua, had long been the uncrowned king in the northwest. He was conquered by him in the entire pass, Longyou and Hexi. Even the thirty countries in the Western Regions and Tuyuhun were subordinate to him. Tubo was defeated by him. This time, the imperial army personally led the expedition, and there were less than 30,000 imperial guards in Chang'an. How could he resist it?"
The people were talking a lot and it was difficult to curb them. Even the residences of princes and ministers, the princes and ladies were worried about the situation in Chang'an and were talking privately.
"You guys don't have to be afraid. Emperor Dahua works hard to govern and seek talent. How could he use a butcher knife to the people and scholars in the city? We just need to live a normal life. Even if Li Tang is defeated and we become the people of Dahua, it may not be a good thing. I heard that Dahua treats the people very favorably and takes care of the scholars. We have long wanted to surrender to Dahua." A group of scholars talked in the room in the restaurant, but were not worried about the Dahua army entering the city.
In Chang'an Palace.
Li Yuan was restless and paced back and forth on the steps of the Golden Palace, his anxious expression was dark.
In the court, there were not many military generals left, only some civil officials, who were also arguing about how to fight against the 100,000 Dahua army when they fell to the ground.
One side advocated a battle to the end, with Dou Kang, Dou Cong and Li clans as the main ones. He asked to recall Zhang Zhenzhou's troops immediately, and mobilized Fengyi County and Tongguan troops to come back to serve the king and protect the capital.
One side advocated retreating, leaving Hangu Pass, entering Hexi, taking advantage of the army to regain Jinyang, and developing in Jinland, and from then on the land of Wei State during the Warring States Period. Even though Luo Cheng occupied the pass, it was most like the Qin State back then, the princes of the Central Plains included Dou Jiande from Zhao, Du Fuwei from Chu, Wang Shichong from Han, and Li Mi from Qi State, which were very similar to the situation in the Warring States Period. In addition, there were many small princes, and even if Dahua wanted to follow the Qin State to sweep the Central Plains, it was not easy.
There were many officials who insisted on evacuating, including Xiahou Duan, Tang Jian, Liu Zhenghui, Sideping, Lu Jie, Quan Hongshou and others.
The two sides argued endlessly, and Li Yuan was in a dilemma for a while.
Chapter completed!