The next day, Guo Ziyi ordered the entire army to go into battle with the target at Baqiao.
He personally commanded the troops and took charge of the Chinese army to launch an attack on the puppet Yan army.
Guo Ziyi personally put on armor and commanded the battle on the front line, while the two military supervisors, Li Chu, the king of Guangping, and Li Fuguo, the emperor's trusted eunuch, sat in the military camp and watched the soldiers gather towards Baqiao.
The first half of the war went very smoothly. The defenders led by the puppet Yan general An Shouzhong were demoralized when facing the Tang army, and they abandoned their helmets and armor and fled.
Li Chu, the king of Guangping, who witnessed the results of the Tang army from a high platform, was overjoyed. As he expected, the Tang army would be devastating as long as it was dispatched, and the puppet Yan army was not worth mentioning.
Li Fuguo, who was on the other side, watched the Tang army form a long snake formation and advance rapidly towards Baqiao.
Li Fuguo also had a smile on his face when he thought that he would be able to regain the victory of Chang'an, Xijing.
He glanced at Guangping King Li Chu not far away, and was surprised that King Guangping could persuade Guo Ziyi to send troops.
Li Fuguo had placed cronies in the army, so he naturally knew that the king of Guangping, Li Chu, went to Guo Ziyi's tent yesterday and persuaded Guo Ziyi to send troops today.
But what reason King Guangping used to persuade Guo Ziyi, and how he made Guo Ziyi send troops honestly, Li Fuguo did not know the details.
It seems that it is necessary to re-examine the alliance between himself and Queen Zhang.
Li Fuguo and Empress Zhang formed an alliance. Now Empress Zhang is indeed favored in the harem, and the emperor does have the idea of changing the crown prince.
However, according to the inheritance law of the Tang Dynasty, the role of the current emperor's ideas in the succession of the throne is not worth mentioning. If King Guangping is really capable, the throne will still be his.
Li Fuguo was thinking, should he hedge his bets and show his favor to King Guangping?
At this time, the Tang army had broken through the bridgehead of Baqiao. An Shouxin's puppet Yan army was defeated by Xian Deng camp, and Guo Ziyi's commander's flag advanced a lot.
King Guangping said excitedly: "Come here! Raise my flag! The troops on the left and right will accompany me to the battle!"
King Quang Binh also had a personal guard force around him, which was also the team that King Quang Binh had accumulated during the counterinsurgency campaign.
These more than a thousand people are all wearing gorgeous Mingguang armor, and they are the direct descendants of King Guangping.
Now when it was time to pick peaches, King Guangping was naturally not willing to lag behind. He personally raised the flag, stepped down from the high platform and led his troops into battle.
When the Tang army raised a flag again, it was still the flag representing Li Tang's clan. The morale of the Tang army was even higher, while the Puppet Yan army even lost the morale to defend Baqiao.
Guo Ziyi frowned, this battle went so smoothly.
An Shouzhong was a pseudo-Yan general. Guo Ziyi fought against him many times. An Shouzhong's fighting style was courageous.
Although the Pseudo-Yan army was much worse than before, An Shouzhong still had four thousand elites in his hands, the most powerful of which was a cavalry unit, the "Yi Xinghe" trained by An Lushan himself.
This cavalry, composed of border barbarians, has a very fierce fighting style and will even cut off people's noses and ears as trophies.
From the time the troops were raised in the four towns of Hedong until they marched into Luoyang, Chang'an, it was this group of Yi Xinghe who took the lead, and they were also very famous among the Tang army.
But when they attacked Baqiao, Yi Xinghe did not appear, and the people guarding Baqiao were ordinary soldiers.
Guo Ziyi was wary. An Shouzhong didn't use Yi Xinghe in a strategic location like Baqiao, so this force must still be of great use.
Guo Ziyi called the guards around him and prepared to restrain the soldiers on the front line to attack slowly, so as not to fall into the trap of the fake Yan.
But at this moment, the whole army was boiling again. Guo Ziyi looked back and saw only the military flag of the crown prince, the marshal of the world's troops, and King Guangping Li Chu appearing in the rear.
Guo Ziyi’s first thought was that it was terrible!
As Li Chu's military flag appeared, the former army was extremely excited and moved faster.
The originally tight one-word long snake formation was stretched wider, and the soldiers in front were busy rushing into Xijing to seize the first opportunity to recapture Xijing.
Guo Ziyi's face was ugly. King Guangping's military flag was more gorgeous than his commander's flag, and it was raised higher than his commander's flag.
Now that the soldiers in front saw two military flags and King Quang Binh's military flag moving forward quickly, their morale was boosted and they attacked faster.
Guo Ziyi has not yet sent out his personal guards, but the frontline troops have already passed Baqiao.
After Baqiao is the Jinguang Gate, which is the key to entering Chang'an. The Tang army was overwhelming and entered the Jinguang Gate.
Li Chu in the rear became even more excited. After taking the Jinguang Gate, Chang'an would be undefeated and the recapture of Xijing would be just around the corner.
He urged the flag officer beside him to continue moving forward. He must take credit for the victory of regaining Chang'an!
Two handsome flags appeared in the Tang army, and An Shouxin, the puppet Yan general who was guarding Baqiao, was overjoyed to see them.
Guo Ziyi is a difficult opponent, but King Li Tang Guangping is just a rotten fish in An Shouxin's eyes.
An Shouxin naturally knew very well how good the Li Tang clan was in leading troops, and King Guangping's rash advance also made the Tang army more loose. When the forwards rushed into the Jinguang Gate, An Shouxin finally made a move!
Yi Xinghe, who was lurking beside the city wall, immediately mobilized. This brave Hu cavalry gave up their horses, rushed up to Ba Bridge with weapons raised, and quickly recaptured Ba Bridge!
After recapturing Baqiao, the Tang army in the long snake formation was split into two halves. The Tang army that rushed through Baqiao and into the Jinguang Gate immediately fell into chaos!
In fact, the forward troops originally had a large number of people, and they could completely attack the rear troops in turn.
However, because the Tang army was eager to achieve meritorious service, the front troops charged too loosely, and the officers were unable to restrain the soldiers from counterattack.
An Shouxin ordered the soldiers guarding the city to shout, "The Tang army has been defeated! The Tang army has been defeated!"
This caused the former army to fall into a rout.
The defeat of the former army was nothing to the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang army crowded on the Ba Bridge was blocked by the Yi Xing River and fell into a command failure.
A large number of soldiers crowded on Ba Bridge. The soldiers in Yi Xing He all wore masks with ghost faces, which frightened the soldiers on the bridge and backed away.
The soldiers behind rushed forward, and the soldiers in front retreated. The wide Baqiao fell into chaos. The Tang army began to trample on its own, and some soldiers were squeezed out of Baqiao.
At this time, An Shouxin ordered Yi Xinghe in the rear to mount their horses, and started a powerful cavalry charge towards Baqiao!
This time, the Tang army was severely beaten. Guo Ziyi had already seen that the situation was not good, and began to order the drummers to slow down the drums and re-establish a defense line at the other end of Baqiao.
But at this time, King Guangping, who was not aware of the situation at the rear, was still advancing. Seeing that the soldiers commanding the flag of King Guangping did not hear the drum signal and were not aware of the changes in the front line, they continued to advance.
The Tang army's command was chaotic, allowing An Shouxin to seize the opportunity. The Yi Xinghe cavalry broke through the Ba Bridge!
When the Tang troops in the back row were preparing to perform a meritorious service, when they saw the fiercely charging Grimace Cavalry, they were so frightened that they lost their will to fight.
The retreating Tang army collided with the advancing Tang army in the front row, and the Pseudo-Yan cavalry was in chaos before they could even charge forward.