297 Li Jiancheng comes to aid, the two armies fight to the decisive battle

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At this time, to the west, there is a place called Baiwanggu in the east of Huayin City.

The 20,000 Sui army led by Xu Chu and Gan Ning were fighting with 100,000 Tang troops retreated from Tongguan.

This is the only way for the Tang army. Only by passing through this can they return to Chang'an.

Otherwise, from here to the north is Guangtong Canal, and from the south is Huashan.

Xu Chu and Gan Ning set up a camp here to guard this passage.

After Liu Hongji and Li Er led 100,000 Tang troops to arrive here, they were blocked by them and could not move westward.

Immediately, Li Er immediately led the Tang army to launch a fierce attack on Xu Chu and Gan Ning's 20,000 Sui army, and opened the channel at all costs.

Xu Chu and Gan Ning also fought to the death, and would never let a soldier of the Tang army go there.

They firmly believe that as long as they persist for more than half a day, Xu Feng led the main force of the Sui army to reach the rear.

At that time, the Tang army, which was attacked from both sides, would be defeated.

Now, it is the last moment for both sides to fight desperately.

"Kill!"

The Tang army, all over the mountains, rushed towards the peaks on both sides of the valley.

On the mountain peak, the 10,000 Sui infantry led by Gan Ning occupied the peaks on both sides and guarded the entire valley. The Tang army did not dare to pass easily.

The first batch of Tang soldiers who entered the country were all destroyed in the valley by the huge rocks pushed down by the Sui army on the mountain.

Now, when the Tang soldiers behind them failed to deal with the Sui army on the mountains on both sides, they refused to enter the valley easily.

Moreover, Li Er and the others also knew that there would be thunderstorms in the Sui army that would explode.

If the Tang army soldiers who threw that thing into the valley from the peaks on both sides and entered the valley would suffer heavy casualties.

In this way, both sides fought desperately around the mountains on both sides.

Although there were only 10,000 infantrymen in the Sui army in Ganning, they occupied the right time and place and had high morale.

On the other hand, the Tang army fled in a panic from Tongguan, and its morale was already low. Now it is very difficult to attack such a mountain, and the soldiers' war-weariness is getting stronger and stronger.

Fortunately, the Tang army still had a few days of dry food, otherwise, the Tang army would have to be hungry at this time.

If that were the case, the 100,000 soldiers of the Tang army would probably have scattered.

"Boom! Boom!"

After the battle began, Liu Hongji sent the Tang soldiers upwards without hesitation.

Unfortunately, under such a dangerous mountain situation, it is not necessarily a good thing that many soldiers are not necessarily a good thing.

Ten thousand Sui infantry from Gan Ning were strangled on both sides of the mountain. The Tang army attacked for half a day, but the wounded soldiers and generals failed to capture it.

The Tang army paid a heavy price and caused considerable damage to the defensive Sui army.

If the Tang army continues to use human lives to fill it up, in another half a day, it will be enough to kill Gan Ning’s 10,000 people.

Rumble!

But at this moment, Xu Chu, who had been hiding and not appearing, led 8,000 Sui cavalry to suddenly emerge from the flank.

Xu Chu led the Sui cavalry to attack too suddenly, and cut off the attacking Tang army in half, and then the Tang army was defeated.

Xu Chu has actually been leading the army and hiding not far away, but has not taken action for a long time.

Instead, the Tang army and Gan Ning fought fiercely for half a day, and attacked under the most relaxed Tang army and the Sui army's most critical situation.

This completely fooled the Tang army.

The Tang soldiers who had already had a low morale and did not want to fight again chose to escape quietly when they fled.

The mountains and fields are so big and there are so many soldiers in the Tang army. Liu Hongji and Li Er can't stop the escaped soldiers.

"Oh, I lost, no chance."

Xu Maogong looked at the Tang army troops who were suddenly attacked by Xu Chu and fled, sighed and said in a low voice.

"Shubao, Yao Jin, are ready to take His Highness away."

Xu Maogong reminded Xu Maogong and Cheng Yaojin on the side that he had a premonition that the worse situation would be behind.

Most of the 100,000 Tang troops could not be saved, but Li Er could not have any trouble.

"good."

Qin Qiong's face was solemn. He understood what Xu Maogong meant and nodded in response.

After nightfall, the Tang army was forced to camp, and Liu Hongji did not organize the Tang army to attack.

It’s not that Liu Hongji doesn’t want to organize, but that the Tang soldiers at this time don’t want to fight at all, and they can’t even organize the organization.

Since the Tang army did not have much food in their hands, the Tang army's food dropped sharply at night, which made the Tang army's soldiers even more dissatisfied.

After it got dark, teams of Tang soldiers continued to leave the barracks in groups.

Li Er and Liu Hongji knew it but could not stop it, and even let it go.

At this time, if they organize their troops and these deserters, if one of them is not done well, it will easily lead to mutiny.

"General Qin, General Cheng, after dawn, you will lead a group of troops to protect the King of Qin and His Highness Zhao.

Go south, walk the path over Huashan and return to Chang'an."

At night, Liu Hongji found Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin and said to them.

"What about you, General?"

"Me? I can't leave.

I am the commander of the army. If I leave, how can I be worthy of these brothers who have lived and died with me?"

Liu Hongji smiled bitterly.

"I will stay and lead the army to fight to the death. Even if I die, I will die with my brothers.

But we can die, but the two high men, King Qin and King Zhao, cannot. You must protect them and return to Chang'an safely.

Otherwise, if something happens to the two Your Highnesses, how can I be worthy of Your Majesty?"

"Yes, General, I will take the order."

When this situation came to this, Qin Qiong was not pretentious anymore and immediately responded.

The sky was slightly bright, and some soldiers of the Tang army hurried back and reported to Liu Hongji that a large number of Sui troops were chasing him in the direction of Tongguan behind.

"Sure enough, I'm chasing you, almost the same as what I thought about, Duan Zhixuan and General Yuchi can't hold on for two days at all."

"Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, immediately bring two Your Highnesses, military advisors and others to withdraw.

Otherwise, if you wait for the Sui army to come later, you will not be able to leave."

Liu Hongji looked at Qin Qiong and others and said.

"good."

"I won't leave."

As a result, Li Er didn't want to leave yet. He felt shameless and had to go to see Li Yuan, so he would rather die here in battle.

"Stay the green mountains without worrying about burning firewood. Your Highness, let's go."

Finally, Liu Hongji and others' persuasion failed, and Qin Qiong knocked Li Er unconscious and forced him away.

Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin and his group, led thousands of elite cavalry of the Tang army, and before the Sui army came from behind, they took Li Er, Xu Maogong, Li Yuanba and others to the south and retreated on the Huashan Road.

They need to go around a big circle before they can return to Chang'an.

After Li Er and others left, Liu Hongji became relaxed.

"Gather the troops and fight to the death with the Sui army!"

Liu Hongji yelled, knowing that they could not escape this time, so they could only fight the Sui army to the end.

"Haha, Xu Chu and Gan Ning did a good job."

When Xu Feng led more than 10,000 Sui cavalry to chase him here first.

Xu Feng looked at the Tang army who was blocked here and smiled with satisfaction.

Rumble!

Ten thousand Sui cavalry wandered around the periphery and did not immediately attack the Tang army.

Xu Feng was waiting for more Sui troops to arrive later and was preparing to eat the nearly 100,000 main troops of the Tang army in one breath.

At this time, the 100,000 Tang troops were completely besieged by the Sui army.

Liu Hongji took advantage of this time to quickly assemble the Tang army and distributed all the last food in his hand.

This will be their last battle!
To be continued...