Chapter 449: Fighting with each other

The actual situation was not as Geshuhan thought. Li Qing'an first polite and then troops. Li Qing'an did not launch an attack, but still maintained a confrontation between the two armies. A few days passed, and July began to appear. Sooner and evening, and Geshuhan's army in the valley no longer lived like the previous few days, and the restless heart of the army gradually calmed down.

The two armies remained in a confrontation, which was exactly what Geshuhan expected. He did not have to fight fiercely with the Anxi Army. He waited for Gao Xianzhi to achieve the first victory and preserve his own strength.

His daily work is to drink the medicinal wine given to him by Li Qing'an, and then he kept urging the food and food supplies behind him. The medicinal wine given by Li Qing'an was indeed effective. Although the foot pain was not eradicated, the pain level was significantly slowed down, which made Geshu Han very excited. In order to get this medicinal wine for a long time, he wrote a letter of thanks and sent someone to send it to Li Qing'an, praising the medicinal wine for its miraculous effect and was willing to pay a lot of money to buy this giant scorpion.

Li Qing'an replied to him again, saying that this giant scorpion produces very little, only in the red and hot and humid forests in Xinde and Punjab all year round, and he would send people to capture them. He ordered people to send a few bottles of medicinal wine to allow Geshuhan to take good care of himself.

The imminent atmosphere of war has significantly slowed down in the medicinal wine diplomacy of the two coaches, and the possibility of conflicts between the two families seems to have become far away.

While the situation on the Western Front battlefield was slowing down, three large-scale battles occurred in the Eastern Front battlefield.

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Luogu Road is also called Tangluo Road. From Hanzhong to Chang'an, he took Luogu. It took 652 miles and the valley was 420 miles long. The road was turbulent and 84 square meters, with two major valley mouths, Tanggu and Luogu. It has heavy hills and no streams, dangerous cliffs and rocks. It has been a place of situation since ancient times.

It is the most convenient road from Hanzhong to Chang'an, nearly 300 more than Baoxie Road. Since ancient times, it has been the only way to Guanzhong to Hanzhong and even Bashu. Li Longji and Gao Xianzhi took this road to Chang'an. Before that, 10,000 people from Guanzhong's army were deployed at Luogu Pass, blocking the way north of Jiannan's army. As the army of both sides gathered, fighting for Luogu Pass became the focus of the battle between the two sides.

The drums were like thunder, and the battle flags were flying on Luogu Pass. The black Jiannan Army launched wave after wave of attack on Luogu Pass position located in Laojun Ridge. The arrows were like rain, and the sound of killing was shocking the sky.

Guo Ziyi looked at the tide of Jiannan Army, who rushed over with a serious look. He gave the order, "Shoot!"

Five thousand crossbowmen fired together, shooting towards the dense crowds of people, and screamed loudly, and the soldiers fell to the ground. The dense rain of arrows suppressed the attacking soldiers, making it difficult for them to take a step.

A few miles away, Li Longji stood under an apricot yellow banner, looking anxiously at the two armies fighting. Yang Guozhong also rode on the horse and accompanied him. Most of the royal family members who escaped from Chang'an walked on Ziwu Road to Hanzhong, while Yang Guozhong walked on Luogu Road. Because of his high status and the court did not stop him, the defenders of Luogu Pass did not make things difficult for him and let him pass the pass directly. They happened to meet the Jiannan army on the way north.

Li Longji was extremely happy with Yang Guozhong's arrival and immediately appointed him as the right prime minister of the Central Secretariat and headed towards Chang'an with him.

At this time, Yang Guozhong saw that Luo Guguan could not capture him for a long time, so he reminded Li Longji: "Your Majesty, I am worried that the Northern Dynasties army will leave Ziwu Valley and cut off our retreat, especially the food route. If the food route is cut off, we cannot move forward and retreat. I am worried that we will be trapped in the valley. Your Majesty, I will force the soldiers to attack the city if they die."

The anxiety in Li Longji's eyes became deeper, and he immediately ordered: "Transfer my will to Gao Xianzhi and order him to send additional troops to solve the problem. Regardless of the cost, he must take down Luogu Pass!"

When the order was passed to the front army, Gao Xianzhi became even more anxious. He also knew that Hanzhong was empty. If the Guanzhong army took the Ziwu Valley to attack Hanzhong and cut off his logistics and food, the consequences would be unimaginable.

In fact, Gao Xianzhi's original intention was not to attack Guanzhong. Their strength was not strong. Moreover, there were Li Qing'an's 70,000 Anxi Army and 50,000 Shuofang Army in Guanzhong. This was the 120,000 army. Although the number was smaller than them, its strength was far greater than that of them. Especially Li Qing'an's 70,000 army, which were all the troops of Anxi's battles. Gao Xianzhi knew the strength of the Dashi Army better than anyone else. The Anxi Army could defeat them one after another, which shows that the Anxi Army under Li Qing'an was far stronger than the Anxi Army under his command back then.

In addition, there are nearly 200,000 troops in Guanzhong. Although most of these troops are newly recruited troops, many of them are former soldiers, and they can be put into the battlefield with just a little training. In addition, Ge Shuhan has two sides and three swords, and there is no news on the Baoxi Road. I guess he dare not confront Li Qing'an's Anxi Army. Such an army, such cooperation, and their dreams are the same, how can they defeat Li Qing'an and Guo Ziyi's coalition forces?

But Li Longji was eager to capture Chang'an, so Gao Xianzhi had to force his troops. At this time, a cavalry rushed over and said loudly: "The emperor has an order. Gao Zheng sent troops to attack again, and he took down Luogu Pass at any cost."

"At any cost, all people die, what's the point of entering Guanzhong?"

Gao Xianzhi complained secretly and had to say, "The third, fourth and fifth armies are all put into battle. The first one to attack Luogu Pass will be rewarded with 10,000 guan!"

The Jiannan Army invested another 30,000 troops, forming a strong pressure to attack Luogu Pass. The army was like a tide and soldiers were like forests. The soldiers carried long ladders and ran forward. The drums were ringing heavily, and the shouts of killing were shocking. Three deep defense trenches had been dug in front of Luogu Pass. Each deep trenches were two zhang wide and one zhang five deep. It needed to use wooden boards to build a bridge, which added great difficulty to the attacking side. Moreover, Guo Ziyi deployed eight thousand crossbowmen behind the three defensive trenches, and then scattered tens of thousands of tiny caltrops within a hundred steps in front of the gully, forming an effective defense system.

At this time, the drums in Jiannan's army made a loud sound again, and 30,000 people formed five phalanxes and launched a large-scale attack again. At this time, the largest attack since the war began.

After several failures of the attack, Gao Xianzhi learned his lesson and no longer attacked forcefully, but adopted positional battles and advanced step by step. He used the method of thunder cavalry to defend against bows and arrows, and temporarily made twenty leather frames. This leather frame was made of wood tacks, with wooden boards on the front, covered with raw cowhides, each frame was ten feet long and two feet high, and was carried forward by two hundred soldiers to resist bows and arrows. After each leather frame, thousands of soldiers could hide. When attacking, each soldier held up a shield or wooden board. In this way, the leather frame and shield formed a hard shell, and the 20,000 troops were no longer afraid of the enemy's sharp bows and arrows.

Amid the rumbling drums, the attack wave of Jiannan Army had already reached one hundred and fifty steps away from the ravine and entered the range of crossbow arrows. At this time, Guo Ziyi sneered and ordered: "Prepare for the bed crossbow!"

The crossbow army dodged and pushed up three hundred crossbows from behind. Two soldiers tightened the bowstrings in front of each crossbow. Each crossbow had nine arrows on each crossbow, and one shot nine consecutive times, which was extremely powerful.

"shoot!"

With Guo Ziyi's order, three hundred bed crossbows and two thousand seven hundred arrows were shot out together. The arrows were like thunder and were powerful. Although the Jiannan Army leather frame could block the crossbow arrows, it could not block the power of the bed crossbow. Suddenly, the leather frame was shot through one after another. Two-foot-long iron arrows smashed the wooden boards and cross beams, and the leather frame became fragmented. The powerful crossbow arrows shot through the wooden boards and cowhides, and also shot through the soldiers hiding behind. Only screams were heard. The soldiers died tragically and fell to the ground. The leather frame fell over, revealing a large group of confused troops.

At this time, eight thousand crossbowmen showed their power, and the crossbow arrows were diagonally towards the sky, and the arrow clouds rose into the air, like locusts pounced on them, shooting into the dense army. The shields and armor of the Jiannan Army were unable to withstand the impact of the rain of arrows. Under the heavy blow of the Guanzhong Arrow Formation, the attacking Jiannan Army suffered heavy casualties, and the dead bodies in front of the ravines were bleeding into a river.

Gao Xianzhi stood on the platform to watch the battle. He saw that Guo Ziyi's army had sharp crossbows and occupied the most favorable terrain. The Jiannan Army did not bring heavy weapons such as bed crossbows and catapults, and it was difficult for him to break through the opponent's arrow formation. Before the short-term battle was launched, his army had killed and injured nearly 8,000 people, and the cost of forcing an attack was too high.

Gao Xianzhi sighed secretly, "We are all Tang army, and they killed each other for the sake of the power struggle between the royal family. They did not die at the hands of the Hu people, but died under the arrows of their own people. The soldiers who died were dying with their eyes closed!"

"withdraw troops!"

Gao Xianzhi gritted his teeth and made up his mind. No matter how furious Li Longji was, he could no longer let the soldiers die.

‘Dang!Dang!Dang!’ The bell of withdrawing troops rang out throughout the battlefield, and the Jiannan Army went down like a retreat, retreating three miles away. Only corpses and soldiers struggling on the brink of death were left on the battlefield.

Guo Ziyi also sighed and ordered: "Go and carry all the injured soldiers back, so you can treat them."

He shook his head, and this kind of killing between his own people also filled his heart with disgust and discomfort, without a trace of joy of victory.

Li Longji's face turned pale. Gao Xianzhi actually withdrew his troops. This disappointed him. He felt that Gao Xianzhi had not done his best and he still had reservations. These generals all said nicely, and they were going through fire and water. But when they really wanted them to go through fire and water, they pushed each one, fearing that their army would suffer too much.

Li Longji was extremely unhappy and said, "Go! Call Gao Xianzhi to me."

After a moment, Gao Xianzhi hurried over, and he knelt down on one knee and said, "I am Gao Xianzhi, please see Your Majesty!"

"Why do you want to withdraw your troops?" Li Longji asked in a merciless manner.

"Report to your Majesty, we are not prepared enough to break through the opponent's arrow formation. In just one day, we killed and injured eight thousand soldiers, but the opponent was not at all hurt. Your Majesty, it is difficult to win this battle."

"Is this the reason for you to withdraw your troops? Will there be no casualties in the war?"

Gao Xianzhi said in a high voice: "Report to Your Majesty, of course there will be casualties in wars, but I think there is no need for unnecessary casualties."

Li Longji stared at him viciously, wishing to slaughter the person who dared to contradict him, but he didn't dare to force Gao Xianzhi too much, so he could only bear it and said, "What do you think you should do?"
Chapter completed!