"What a great Jiang Shang. He is so old. 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 Shanglai 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 a mere 4,000 weak Bukit army, he actually lost 600 cavalry. It was no surprise that this was a defeat.
The loss of six hundred cavalry was not a big loss for Xuanyuan who had tens of thousands of cavalry, but this loss was a bit aggrieved.
Jiang Shang, a respected veteran, concealed his identity and hid in the Bukit Army to plot against him. This behavior seemed to him simply shameless.
I didn't even know that the opponent was Jiang Shang, and I thought that my opponent was Buji. I didn't pay enough attention to him, and he was calculated by the other party mentally 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."
Longxuhu was so single that 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 like garlic, now Xuanyuan would be in trouble.
Surrendering so readily, is this really a disciple of Yuqing?
Understand, faking surrender is definitely faking surrender.
Xuanyuan sneered: "How dare you play a trick like pretending to surrender with me? Come, push this person out and chop him down."
Longxuhu was startled, and when he saw that the other party was serious, he immediately panicked and shouted quickly: "Wait, wait, I'm not pretending 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?"
"Don't think about it, don't think about it."
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 couldn't do such a high-intelligence job as pretending to surrender.
Xuanyuan also felt that even if Jiang Shang really sent someone to pretend to surrender, it would be impossible for him to send someone as straightforward as 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 his 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 protect Guanzhong, he still sent his disciples down the mountain to help Tang, and also allowed his disciples to surrender. Do you want to use this to preserve the Taoist tradition?"
At this thought, Xuanyuan could not help but flash a hint of ridicule at the corner of his mouth. He didn't know why Taiqing Taoist made 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 destiny." Xuanyuan snorted coldly.
Xuanyuan's army belongs to the West 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 thousands of 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 at the rear first, and then come to Jiang Shang to regain his position.
In this way, the three Qin armies on the west route, except Wang Jian's, the other two were 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 only took three days to occupy all the bases of the Tang army west of Wuzhangyuan, and successfully joined forces at Wuzhangyuan.
But regarding the next action, the three parties had differences.
Wang Jian believed that they should attack Chang'an directly. 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 couldn't argue, the Grand Governor Li Jing sent a military order, ordering the three of them to attack Chang'an.
It turned out that within these three days, Li Shimin of Chang'an also received news that Li Mu had 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 by not returning 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, regained his former wiseness and wisdom.
Although he had decided to defend Chang'an and fight the Qin army to the end, consuming the Qin army's strength as much as possible, he also knew that an isolated city could not be defended.
If one more city can be saved, the pressure faced by Chang'an will naturally be lighter.
Therefore, 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 Baling's defense was far inferior to that of Chang'an, Li Mu not only had to face directly the Daqin East Road and the Fourth Army, but also Li Jing's 100,000 Central Army that followed closely behind.
If Li Jing's troops don't care about Ba Ling and go directly to Chang'an, then the pressure on Li Mu will be smaller. But if they bulldoze Ba Ling first and then attack Chang'an, wouldn't going to Ba Ling be courting death? Relatively speaking, Chang'an is more important.
Safety.
The generals of Li and Tang were not stupid either. 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 lost 300.
Li Zuo's chariot commanded 5,000 troops and lost 500.
Bukit's 5,000 troops lost 2,500;
Plus Ba Ling's two thousand defenders and Yang Jian's five thousand elite;
In other words, the number of troops in Li Mu's hands now has reached 18,700.
Even if Wu Qi recruited and surrendered many Tang troops, his total strength was only 13,000. 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 route.
After the Lu army reunited, they joined forces to attack Ba Ling.